And there you have it.
Unions like the CFMEU, UFU (Fire fighters), MUA, etc, get more for their workers and broker some pretty amazing deals.
The reasons why these unions broker good deals is that a union is only as good as it's members. Strong union members = strong union.
PISS WEAK MEMBERS = PISS WEAK UNIONS!
Pilots get onto Prune and lament how T&C's are constantly being eroded, threatened by lower cost entities, etc, and then bleat about how their union 'does nothing about it', and how it's all the 'mean managements' fault.
When someone posts about something along the lines of "let's get the unions together" or "let's have one pilot union" the first three responses (and I'm guessing around 90% of the future ones) will be how it's such a bad idea, and stick the boot into the AFAP for good measure (love how the examples used to justify this are from over 30 years ago).
All the pilot unions are weak, because pilots are piss-weak themselves.
DIVOSH!