I don't have "will fly for food mentality" that’s why I got out of the airlines, and those were pay rates negotiated by a union. I also saw good pilots washed out in training by the unions input because the pilot wasn't the unions wet dream, and yet they kept pilots that should have been let go, and they almost kill people.
Whether there is a union or not you’re screwed it’s just by who becomes the question, and I would rather not have to pay for it.
In regards to training washing out pilots on purpose get your facts straight, and that’s not what the pilot says or the company says, because that is only a small part of what happened either way. If you want to know what really happened, sit in the sim with them on there ride, that’s the only way you will ever know the whole truth about it. So no one on here can make really make a comment about it, can you?
If this union is so good, and our life would be so much better with them, and they wan't to be here so bad, then why don't they offer no dues for the first five years. Then after that dues would only be .0005%, otherwise it looks like they are only going after us for the money. Which is the only thing they wan't after all. Just remember unions and managment only want one thing out of employees, Profit.