Originally Posted by Mason32

Are you a pilot? Do you even know anything at all about the RLA?
We aren't exactly playing evenly anymore. It may be a free market system, but under the RLA we are fighting with one hand behind our backs. It is all fine and good to say they can hire any novice commercial pilot and teach them to be a FO.... what you're missing is that FO's are not making command decisions in the airplanes. They have basically run out of skilled professional labor willing to take the job for such low pay and are recruiting people who just don't know any better....

All the pilot unions are saying is that since the govet completely deregulated the industry, they need to deregulate the labor force as well so we can effectively negotiate fair wages and rules. The current system does not allow our labor representatives a fair opportunity to negotiate effectively. The current system basically has the employee trapped with no other option except to leave. Your solution of leaving isn't very realistic, but it makes a great soundbyte.