You can't even get the beginning of the American Civil War right, no wonder you need a union to speak for you. Slavery was but a small part of the big picture.
Just like when organized labor comes into a company. Work rules, QOL issues and payroll for pilots are only a small part of the big picture of an air carrier.
And I honestly hope, that you are not even beginning to compare being a pilot at any air carrier to slavery in the south before the civil war...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_the_American_Civil_War
The
origins of the American Civil War lay in the complex issues of
slavery, competing understandings of
federalism,
party politics,
expansionism,
sectionalism,
tariffs,
economics and modernization in the
Antebellum Period.
The United States was a nation divided into two distinct regions separated by the
Mason-Dixon line.
New England, the
Northeast and the Midwest had a rapidly growing economy based on family farms, industry, mining, commerce and transportation, with a large and rapidly growing urban population and no slavery outside the
border states. Its growth was fed by a high birth rate and large numbers of European immigrants, especially Irish, British, German, Polish and Scandinavian.
The South was dominated by a settled
plantation system based on slavery, with rapid growth taking place in the Southwest such as
Texas based on high birth rates and low immigration from Europe. There were few cities or towns, and little manufacturing except in border areas. Although slave owners controlled politics and economics, two-thirds of the Southern whites owned no slaves and usually were engaged in subsistence agriculture.
Overall, the Northern population was growing much more quickly than the Southern population, which made it increasingly difficult for the South to continue to control the national government. Southerners were worried about the relative political decline of their region because the North was growing much faster in terms of population and industrial output.
