The moment someone questions union judgement then they just don't know what they are talking about. Thanks for the wonderful welcome... pilots so bitter about the way managment treats them they start treating the new guys like sh*t. I'm trying to get in the pool of airline pilots too you know... and much of what I say is from the outside looking in (un-biased in many respects). It's no wonder why so many people avoid this field of work... marred by bitterness and vengence tactics.
From the outside looking in, it does not make sense to strike when an airline is already in financial trouble (so much so that it could lead to chaper 7 if it loses too much money in an instance). As far as unions protecting pay scales... why is it that regional pilots make below poverty if striking helps the situation? I don't see how destroying the company when times are bad is going to put money in your pocket when times are good. All I'm saying is that if employees hung on until the airline was making money, then they would be in a better position to petition for pay raises without bankrupting the company. I think the airline industry is the only industry in America that has this sort of mentality.
Perhaps if someone questions the union's judgement in this industry then he must be a slave to management? I never gave any praise to management in any of my comments... but I do alude to the fact that they are the ones that ALWAYS end up smelling like roses after an airline goes under. A vast majority of the airlines are run by greedy bastards who float along on hypocracy (as you note, with the management taking bonuses as front line people take pay cuts).
The whole damn system is fu*ked up... the unions have too much power and pride (and create higher costs and inefficencies for the airlines)... and management tends to give the employees the shaft every chance they get.
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