Originally Posted by
MartinBishop
Why do the unions let them get away with paying so little? Isn't that what they are there to prevent?
Ultimately wages are going to have a lot more to do with the free market than with unions. Unions can and have agreed to wage cuts when market conditions favored them, because ultimately whatever business we're talking about is constrained by market forces. But, these are not those times.
Now, if we had a union structure that had absolute control of pilot supply that would be a different discussion, but that's not what we have.