Just proves how useful a union is. Alpa has lawyers and they will fight for you when you get into a tough spot. It will cost you 1.95%...i bet that guy paid well over 50k for his legal fight ( that would be over 25 years of dues...assuming you made 100k a year)

With a union, that situation would probably never reach a termination to begin with unless the guy had been suspected of abusing fatigue/sick calls, but then the union would step in.