Why does everyone think we have unions in the airline business? We have no unions. What we have are a weak imitation of a union that advocates on Capital Hill in the interests of its mainline members and consults it's Regional members with just enough guidance to hang themselves.

Most of what we have was voted in by the people you see in your own crew room every day or the greedy self serving pricks that came and left years before pulling the rope up behind them.

Example...show of hands...how many people here would vote in a 10% pay cut to boost 1st year FO pay? You would vote no. Then what would you do if ALPA comes in and says, "we are gonna sign off on that because it's the right thing to do". I bet you all would swiftly get rid of ALPA then.