Unions have their own issues. I have worked at non union, in house union and my present carrier who's IBT. I'll take the union (in house or not) anyday.

Case in point. At a small DC-8 operation that's out of business, the pilots were called into a meeting. We were told that we were no longer home based and that we had 2 weeks to move to Miami or commute, we no longer had a guarentee (60 hours) and if we didn't like it, we could quit.

I've seen upgrades done by the "we like you better than the other guy" method.

I've seen folks marginalized because they dared speak their voices over maintainance and scheduling issues.

I seen training used to punish pilots.

When times were tough, I was asked to not disclose to my fellow crewmembers that I was getting paid while they may or may not. I refused to fly with anyone that wasn't getting the same deal as me.

Your union may have issues, but your company does have issues.

Look at it in another light. The best labor/ management airline seems to be WN. But they still have a union. Why?