Originally Posted by
matt1
Emphasis added.
The very job of a union is to redistribute wealth from the company to its members through collective bargaining over pay, benefits and work rules/conditions. Extracting things that companies would not pay of their own volition is by definition the redistribution of wealth, even if one can argue that such redistribution has been earned.
When you have an employee number and can be swapped out of your job for any one of hundreds/thousands of people who can do the exact same job,
I don't even know where to start shredding the faulty conclusions in your post. Frankly, it's not worth my time.
It is ironic, however, that by allowing seniority to be non-portable, the "union" effectively handcuffs us to our current employer and lowers our leverage to negotiate better terms. Management knows we can't move laterally without trashing our seniority. In other words, the "union" isn't a union at all.
With the impending pilot shortage, that is a significant handicap for us and a boost for management.
Back to your regularly scheduled leftist tripe.