Originally Posted by
ATCsaidDoWhat
No, it sounds like you don't like unions because you feel you are entitled to a "free ride" for some reason. Not sure who "Local 1108" is, but let's be honest here. The pilots who ARE paying their dues and are in good standing are the ones who are PAYING the costs of the negotiators, legal help and whatever else, to get a good contract for everyone...including those who are NOT PAYING their fair share.
And for some reason, you feel that someone who is not contributing to the success should be entitled to enjoy the same benefits for free. There's a word for that...."freeloader."
Since the begining of this industry, men and women have fought and some have died in crashes to make it better for those that came after them. Your opinion and belief that you are entitled to live off the fruits of their labor and those at an airline where others are doing the heavy lifting while you sit on the sidelines, don't contribute and gripe about not having more freebies it is pretty pathetic.
Well when people vote in a union that claims to not need dues until they get a first contract. Then they change the bylaws after they are voted in to require dues. Then they call pilots freeloaders who choose not to pay. Their is no union protection, wages or anything else that usually comes with dues paying pilots. I am still a at will employee that has no union protection but the union wants my money even though they have not gotten the pilot group anything after three years of negotiating. When this started i was in the middle about unions, i didn't really know to much about them, now i don't really want anything to do with them. But i am sure i will have to work at union companies due to the fact that so many flying jobs are unionized. You sound just like the union guys at my company. I think they divided the pilots in the middle and they are so arrogant they think they don't need them. Time will tell.
We will just have to agree to disagree on this subject.