There is one real crack in our industries labor unity which management has finally noticed and utilized to drive a wedge into our wall of unity and fracture it into little pieces.

The crack is the gap between mainline and regional /commuter pilot groups. Why does this gap exist? Why not have scope that starts ALL pilots flying under a company banner with that company's mainline. You start in 19 seat turboprops as ab FO and move up to 777 CA.

Why has this obvious measure not been taken by the unions? Why do we have a two class system? Easy...historically the majority of airline pilots were ex-military. These heavily military folks think it's OK for a 22 year to fly a turboprop for peanuts, but they feel their military brothers leaving the service at age 30 should not have to start at the bottom. So the mainline/commuter gap exists to provide a hole to allow military guys to sneak into that 737 without having to fly any smaller stuff. Not really that unreasonable if you think about it... BUT management found the gap and is pounding it apart with bigger and bigger "regional jets"

JO really is serious about flying narrow bodies, in case you didn't know. And the guy does not have a track record of failure.