Plenty of power? No. If that was the case, Skywest would be worse than great lakes in terms of pay, work rules, insurance, and retirement. And all the other regionals would be better than what Comair had after their strike. Like I said, a pilot union has some leverage in the fact that generally management cant just impose concessions, efb reflow policy, or remove, edit, reinterpret a policy when it no longer suits them. And even then, at places that have adversarial CEOs (JO at Mesa for example), they do it anyway and make the union go to the trouble to send it to a neutral third party for an arbitration. Although skywest pilots dont even have that choice. Anyway, with mass and serial bankruptcies and delay tactics, its management that generally does everything they can to not comply with the contract they agreed and signed. So who is extorting who? And that's fine because that's what they are supposed to do because management has fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders and NO ONE ELSE. But if you don't have an advocate on your behalf looking out for your best interest, then its like taking candy from a baby.

If you are using my posts as an excuse of why skywest pilots dont go union, then you are giving me way too much credit. In reality, its just an excuse of why you don't go union. If you guys want to go union, its not going to matter what I or anyone else writes on these forums.

By the way, this is a sincere question because I know you have a couple of good work rules but other than your min day credits, reserve minimum monthly guarantee, and uniform reimbursement, what other work rules do you think xjt pilots would love?