Originally Posted by hummingbear

As I said, I’ve got plenty of issues with the scope & efficiency of the TSA, but that’s another conversation. The government’s ease in tearing up a union contract- & their general hostility to labor at large- should be concerning to all Americans, but most especially those of us represented by labor unions. ALPA represented pilots celebrating this move are a bit like a flock of sheep celebrating wolf conservation efforts.

I believe there’s a section in Flying the Line that talks about the risk to our union’s strength of pilots who make enough money to start thinking they have more in common with management than labor. Make no mistake we will always be grunts pulling levers to them & they dream of the day they can do the same thing to our contract & start paying us what they think we’re worth. (Spoiler: it’s less than we’re making now.)

Again, I’d ask my union brothers & sisters- which side of the negotiating table is feeling empowered by this move?