is the vote over yet? you cant really change peoples opinions at this point, but im glad that there are enough people at skywest who realize how important unions are.

unions have been trashed and badmouthed for the last few years especially alpa but think about this analogy for a minute:

pick your favorite sport. unions and management are playing against each other and a contract has served as the rule book (and of course the RLA), and the NMB serve as the referees. Sometimes you get a few bad calls here and there but for the most part both sides play by the rules. Unfortunately since 9/11, everything has been called in favor of management against unions. but instead of everyone booing at the refs, theyre booing at the unions. so the problem is not unions, its getting the other side to play by the rules, and getting the refs to call the game fairly (i.e. give the employees a little power to push back). The only problem is theres really only one way to fire the refs and thats through our openly anti-labor government.

sorry for dumbing down this analogy but im really sick of unions getting blamed for "giving in" or screwing their own guys over, or being out to just make money for the unions. yes unions make money, but believe me unions make more money when the pilots that they represent also make more money.