Your experience is not as extensive as you think. Some major carriers, beside FDX, do spread the pain to keep the guys on the property. More than one for sure. BTW, companies like to do it that way too. They don't like the disruption of furlough.

United guys may be laughing. That's how they roll.

Keep doing your individual thing. Don't bother to apply for a union position, they'll smell you a mile away.