Thank you for your account. You do realize that I am speaking purely from an outsider' perspective. But what about the airline's office workers? Did the "marketing systems analyst" (aka office job with no clear defined purpose) see his pay cut.
Just to be clear I'm not anti-union, though I do question their merits in some instances. In others, like grocery stores, I find unions beneficial. Grocery workers make decent pay (sadly more than some pilots), and I find they provide better service than the people at Walmart who can barely speak English.