Originally Posted by
fosters
I suppose I could have worded what I wrote differently, but the point remains. Union controls the labor, labor is the union, so therefore labor controls themselves. They are the same thing and have the same objective, increase pay/QOL/benefits.
OK unions aren't a monopoly...we get it. It was an analogy
. Now, when UAL pilots voted in their outstanding pay package in 2000, who did it effect? Management? Or the American population? My vote goes for #2.
Dude, United could have paid their pilots nothing and still lost money before they went into Ch11. It isn't the pilot contract that determines whether or not an airline will make money. It's the business plan.