Every pilot who makes his living flying for some company owes a huge debt of gratitude to those brave men who risked their jobs (and violence) starting ALPA. The fact that $150-250/hr Capt pay, with A/B funds, medical, etc is even in the realm of possibility isn't because of generous managements. Not to mention all the safety rules they got put into the FARs. It's because of better men that FORCED management to pay us fairly. The same unions that defend the profession, even when they are defending scabs and union haters if it is for the greater good.

For those who have "huge problems" with unions, incl ALPA, yet profit daily from their sacrifices, you seem to me a bit hypocritical and ungrateful. It's because of them we have flight and duty time limits, and can't get fired for refusing a jet, and can enforce senority, etc, etc

It's not because of lazy, self-centered, big-ego'd "union haters"

Then to accuse the F/O of threatening to sue, man you take the cake. Sad