Originally Posted by captnate702

I’m sure the republicans would love to support union’s getting a combined 30% direct contribution l to their retirement. AOC and Bernie would also support taxpayers subsidizing the retirements of pilots making over $300k a year. Sounds like a political winner to me.

Fact is, what the industry should be laser focused on is separating commercial airlines from the RLA so that we can actually flex our organized strength as a labor group. Problem is, we are already by far the highest paid pilots in the world and I can’t imagine a bill like this getting 60 votes to get through a filibuster. Idk how renconcilation or whatever works where you can avoid the filibuster like the dems just did, but maybe that would work.

Either way, as long as we are bound by the RLA pilots will not be allowed to strike on a significant scale. The politicos will never allow that.