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Bad management doesn't create unions, unions create unions. You are a pilot, you made a choice to become a pilot, knew the hours, knew the pay, knew what you were up against just like I did. We made a choice.
When unions were created they were there to help people survive with basic needs that couldn't fend for themselves in a society where they had no alternatives.
This isn't true in aviation today (or ever for that matter). You aren't pinned down by geographical barriers and have the ability to change jobs to better yourself and your career. That wasn't true 60, 70 years ago. You have choices, they didn't.
90% of management? Are you out of your mind? The kicker is, that you will stand behind your union and those running it with the thoughts that they are smarter than company management.
If those people were so smart, why are they not in the company management group making the money themselves rather than backing the company into a corner by making unreasonable demands? Is it because they don't have the skills to be a manager and the best they can do is be a schoolyard bully?
I fly for a nonunion shop. I don't want a union because I fly for a 10% outfit. But you will always be a tool because you think operations like Comair (former carrier) would be better off without a union. It was little better than slavery with a union. Without one it would have been a cocentration camp.