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Old 06-11-2015 | 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by tom11011
Would the company want to survive? The 20 pilots they want to fire are desperately need at say RAH who is parking airplanes and can't afford the reduction in staff. Other pilots would demand more to stay. The company would have to raise pay and standards to prevent unorganized labor from leaving without a union to tell them to wait because things are going to get better.


I completely agree with your logic, but having worked for a non-union shop, I don't think it's realistic. We had a captain refuse an aircraft coming out of maintenance because he thought it was unsafe, he got fired. Many of us threatened to quit over that and he was re-hired.

We won some small battles but lost the overall fight. The airline eventually closed its doors.

Skywest makes it work, but I think they are to big to risk totally screwing over their employees.
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