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The ability to strike will enforce "proper" action and accountability to the desires of labor groups. Simply having the "ability" to strike would not automatically lead a labor group to kill the company.
If a company can't afford fair market value set by past precendence then it should not be in business in the first place. Again, I believe we will have MAJOR contraction in this industry and we should. If that means my current job, I'm ok with that as long as it will benifit the whole.
What is a fair market value? If a start up can fill 737 ground school classes with the promise of captain wages of 50K then that is the fair market price.
I bet that if a company were to advertise captain job openings in the 757 they would be overrun by people wanting to do it for less than 35K.
The free market has been creeping in since deregulation. Pilot wages will not stop falling until they reach a point where people will stop sending in resumes' for the wages offered.
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