Yes. Your examples cited above are unique only to the airline industry. The original poster is posed with a question regarding the effects of unions on business in a much broader sense.

Again, as I alluded to earlier, where is the incentive to offer high pay and excellent benefits when people are lined up out the door willing and ready to accept flying jobs for even lower pay and work rules? How many kids coming out of aviation colleges would accept a job right out of school at a major without even caring about pay and benefits?

The reason why people like Lorenzo and J.O. are able to do what they do is because the collective pilot work force gives them a blank check to do so.