Originally Posted by
Lewbronski
This is not an issue that’s limited to UA.
Unfortunately, however, the overwhelming majority of pilots I’m familiar with are uber-conservative, both politically and otherwise. Whatever the merits are or are not of those conservative values in general, when it comes to the domain of organized labor and extracting worth from our professional skills, those values seem to play the role of a pair of concrete boots.
My experience the last 30 years of pilots I’ve flown with has been the opposite. (Ok, I’ve been based in CA or NY the whole time.) UA ALPA seems to have been left-leaning unionist the whole time, at least in bluster. With a couple of notable exceptions, I don’t think it’s helped.