Originally Posted by Gundam

Let us remember the Boston Tea party when the fathers of revolution said "NO way, this is like illegal right? Better the devil you know than the one you don't, and I for one welcome our demonic overlords!"

Then George Washington crossing the Delaware saying "Oh crap they might shoot back! Also, this is technically illegal!"

Pilots can fly a thousand ton machine through the air everyday and believe they can do it safely, but not change the laws in their own country, because only one involves them being told what to do. They can be the deciding factor, with no outside help, to change the course of life and death when things go wrong in their machine, but they can't change what words go on a piece of paper to decide what they can say to other pilots, while they have the support of thousands of other pilots.

Yea, things that get you more power are going to be illegal, because otherwise you'd have more power already. That's the point. The point of the RLA was not to benefit workers. It was to curtail them, it was to make sure they kept working and making money, there was no give to workers because they were already organizing and disciplining business. Infrastructure is a powerful area to place a lever. If pilots start thinking outside their 401ks the way Amazon started thinking outside books, we can make things change for everyone benefit, including ours.