What do you think of the fact that management has control over supply of the commodity that they purchase? Isn't this an unfair relationship? That would be like gold buyers banding together to increase the mining of gold, so they could attain it at a cheaper price, from the producer. This is why unions are necessary. They help balance an unfair supply and demand relationship. When management can lower mins to 250 hours and a pulse, in order to increase supply of available commodity (labor), how is that fair or safe? 250 hour pilots are a dime/ dozen, and all an airline has to do to get them is make an agreement with a pilot farm. Get the dumbest, laziest SOBs you ever met in the door, get their 100 grand, and in 90 days they can be a copilot of an awesome, shiny airliner. Never mind the fact that they will attempt to pile this shiny airliner into the ground, and create a smoking crater on almost every flight. The FAA along with their bed buddy, the RAA, says they are a "fully qualified" airline pilot. If that doesn't work, just use aggressive lobbying efforts to try to get things like a "Multi-Crew Pilot License" legalized, in order to have almost 100% control of supply! Unions would be less of a necessity if pilots had a control on the supply of their labor. I think we can all agree that 250 hours is a totally inappropriate hour amount for someone to be flying an airliner in the 121 environment, in any capacity. If we band together, and encourage the FAA to raise mins (testing requirements, hours, educational requirments, etc.), it would have the effect of limiting supply, increasing safety, and increasing wages. The producer would be controlling supply; it's the way supply and demand is meant to work!!!