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Old 11-30-2020, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by FXLAX View Post
I guess we measure the good unions do in a different way. I listed a partial list of what a union does for pilots. None of that turns into bad things just because a few regionals go away. Thousands of pilots at now failed airlines have been helped throughout the decades because of their union. Their managements’ decisions and or economic realities doesn’t make the help they do for the pilots any less impactful to them. If those unions didn’t exist, they couldn’t provide the services they did and still do provide.
Sure, I even voted yes on the one union drive we had during my tenure. I just didn't have unrealistic expectations about what that would get me at a regional (having started at a union regional in the first place, and escaped from there).
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