Private unions can not overcome the economic forces of the marketplace, that is the ultimate consumer of the product. It is all about profit and what is wrong with profit, without profit a company has no access to capital; without capital there is no growth, no more jobs. Without profit the company will eventually implode.
Yes, with an accelerator added in the name of lost productivity that comes with a union contract. The contact came with more days off, the cost of air-lining crews to and from airplane locations. Combined with a rich owner at a privately held company who probably went, "Why bother". Boy I loved flying the Electra.
You might very well be correct, Jimmy was not Dwayne, Zipper could have easily become something like Atlas. Zantop had Op Specs to operate in every county on the planet. But don't you think that it is more than coincidental that Jimmy elected to make 3-25-97 the last day of work for all union members? But management pilots stayed on and kept the certificate active so he could renegotiate with IBT for a more favorable contract to include pay cuts, reduced days off, etc. Such a great contract that a DA-20 Captain at non-union JUS made more than a L-188 at the IBT represented Zantop. That is why when the IBT attempted to organize JUS, not one former Zipper guy voted for them.
Somebody has to do it, over wise this is a completely one sided thread, of unions can do no wrong and all management sucks. There are two sides, just like voting Dem or GOP, I happen to think anyone voting Dem is making a bad choice, but I defend their freedom to chose as they desire.
Goes back to 1964, first year I got vote, LBJ says a win for Goldwater will get us into a war, young men of draft age don't like wars. So I vote for LBJ, a year later I am on my way to Vietnam. I have voted for one dem since then, and that is because the GOP rep was anti-Willow Run Airport Expansion. I was expressing my freedom, just as everyone else should.
