Originally Posted by Ottolillienthal

I am convinced that this and every other administration doesn't view airline pilots as "labor." Presidential administrations, I think, view us as highly paid professionals who happen to belong to a union for convenience. it's definitely more convenient to collectively bargain one contract as opposed to 50,000 separate ones. The traditional view of unions is that they represent blue collar working class folks.

If the democrats say they care about "labor." They aren't talking about airline pilots. They are talking about electricians, pipe fitters, and boiler-makers.

The President (R, or D) like the fact that pilots are in a union. They can be controlled and manipulated that way through their respective bureaucracies and can exercise greater control over us through the railway labor act. The President knows strikes are over in the USA for airlines, so our only real leverage exists in just plain disruption and chaos type events.