Originally Posted by
Flaps50
Dude you're crazy! Do you really believe that Management is at a disadvantage over labor when it comes to contract talks?
At the major level, absolutely. At the regional contract level, not so much. Well it's not that one companies management is at a disadvantage, it's really that the regional pilots are
more disadvantaged as a whole, what with all these alter-ego carriers, whipsaw, and what not. (IMO of course)
Maybe in a true free market, but in the US there are laws that lean to managements' side. In other places where they don't have labor laws the Army comes in and kills a few worker so everyone goes back to work. Actually that's happened here too.
Of course there are. But there are also laws that lean toward labors side as well, which your second sentence touches on.