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PY, my answer applied to 1108 specifically, but for an educated guess why others have failed I would suggest it was because of company mismanagement and perhaps market situations beyond a union's control such as cut-throat competition and high fuel prices. When <i>all </i>pilots view their aviation skills as a fixed cost of doing business with a minimum price attached then perhaps they can work together to pull wages up instead of following each other in a downward spiral....<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> <br />
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It's not right to expect professional pilots to work for <i>unskilled-labor wages</i> while management balances the budget the easy way--on the pilotgroup's back....<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> In every out of business airline the pilots had to fly as if lives depended on them. How much effort did management put forth? Did they weigh each decision as carefully as the pilots did? I bet not.<br />
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<b>At some companies the BS is so deep that the pilots should be issued uniform boots....NJW</b>
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</blockquote><span style="font-size: 10px">Unemployment before servitude, it that the mantra of union organization. I prefer servitude while looking for my next job. I know nothing of CS’s balance sheet, they might be able to match NJ, and they might not. But it would be great for NJ if they folded after an organizing drive. I suppose that would be good for few CS pilots who could then get hired by NJ. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">As far as anti-union again you have misread me, I am a union realist. I am ex-union ALPA and Teamsters, both companies Transamerica and Zantop out of business. I have seen what unions can do and what they can not do. Unions are why we have many of he working rules at union and non-union airlines. At profitable companies, NJ and UPS, FedEx unions can ensure that management shares with its employees. At marginal companies unions can not make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear. Whenever I see the, militant union talk on this board I go back to my union companies that went out of business and inject a note caution. BTW I know not being 100% pro union on this site is the equivalent of being the anti-Christ. <br />
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