Originally Posted by eaglefly

Another tool in the union-busting business is to bypass the union negotiators and go DIRECTLY to the more easily manipulated and gullible source - the pilots. The pilots then validate this strategy designed to only weaken themselves by agreeing to bypass their own union by ratifying such deals.

Textbook.

Clearly, most of these kids haven't been around the block in the union-busting business and are about to be steamrolled. In fact, they aren't even looking at the steamroller coming straight at them and also are totally unaware that they threw the keys to their management driving the steamroller. The final nail in their own coffins which many will soon pound is actually defending what is occurring. Bank on it.

The situation for these pilots is indeed completely hopeless and so all that can be done is to watch the train wreck from a safe distance and hold your head low as the casualties mount. It's sad to see mass self-destruction, but that is the nature of the hapless regional pilot these days. This disease is spreading like a wildfire among the regionals and once it burns this group, it moves onward to the next.