Another thought ..... Back when I flew with the Great Silver Fleet my Father who worked for Shell Oil and was part of management and I would often get into discussions about unions. He was actually very pro union. His point being that it was a check and balance system.

Without a union management will ALWAYS have an excuse not to pay pilots a fair wage for the work they do. Were buying new airplanes, or were building a new hub, heck do you know much logo lights cost per airplane.

If pilots could get management to pay a million dollars for a days worth of work we would. But the company wouldn't last very long. On the other hand if management could get pilots to fly for a dollar a day the profits would go sky high but no one would stay as one needs to feed his family. Some where in the middle is a happy medimum. Which is the reason for a union.

Pilots don't run a company into the ground, management does. Which is the same reason that soldiers, sailors, and marines don't run the war..... Admirals and generals do...................