Originally Posted by disillusioned

You do realize that he was talking about how we are tied with pay and benefits to the other employee groups right? If we want a higher per diem, we can't get it because the flight attendants would get it. If we want higher 401k, we can't get it because all employees would get the higher 401k. If we had a union, we could ask for this and be separated from the other employee groups. Pilots don't care what other workgroups get, but we are tied to them for everything we ask for.