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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">Status quo? A union is anything but status quo. The pot is always being stirred and once every four or five years everybody in the company needs to go through the never-ending and nervewracking nightmare called "negotiations". </span>
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</span>Or, in the case of NetJets, the parties met with a common interest and hammered out an agreement without the "nightmare" you describe.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">Status quo at a non-union carrier means a stable and profitable career without the nightmare of negotiations or the threat of a job loss due to radical union intervention. </span>
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At my last non-union carrier, it meant a compensation package that stagnated for fifteen years, healthcare contributions that went up repeatedly, domiciles that closed, furloughs, downgrades, and a pillaging of the ESOP that's still in court. All before 9/11, and all without a pesky union to look out for the rights of the pilots.<br />
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I'll take a union carrier any day of the week.</div>