I mean I didn’t think your analogy fit well at all. Half-baked at best, divisive at worst.

management’s job is to run the airline and attempt to make as much money as possible, in the purest capitalistic model. Ideally, they see the value (to their bottom line) of treating employees and customers well. The union’s job is to preserve the wages and QOL of its members, regardless of the value they offer to the company. Ideally they try to squeeze every dollar from the company they can, without actually restricting the company‘s ability to make that money.

So in this case, given that senior pilots are still given preference to junior pilots in every way possible (pay rates, MPG, equipment selection, trip selection, etc) isn’t the union acting in a more business friendly and capitalistic sense than normal, thus doing the opposite of what you were alluding to?