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155mm
More importantly, help us understand why a group of 4621 pilots won't unionize?
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
The union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were
members of unions--was 10.5 percent in 2018, down by 0.2 percentage point
from 2017, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number
of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.7 million in 2018,
was little changed from 2017. In 1983, the first year for which comparable
union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent and
there were 17.7 million union workers
MOST Americans aren’t union members. Given that airline pilot unions seem even more hamstrung in their actions by the RLA than the unions of other industries, and the history of incestuous relationships (MEC to management pilot, etc.), the (hoped for) short time people want to spend in the regionals before moving on, and the lack of support (even moral support) the regional unions get from the unions at the majors, the more reasonable question might be why so many of the other regionals ARE unionized.