Ah! Unity?
Maybe this should have been said here?
Perhaps a few people should review. refresh & learn the history of pilot/ management relationships starting back to the 1930s. (not just here, read the excellent books & articles from ALPA)
And don't forget to pause for a thorough reading of Eastern Airlines, Continental, Pan Am, TWA, etc. with reference to the management practices taught in the `Frank Lorenzo School of Airline Management' where Strong & Dixon graduated with distinction. (Ansett management after Abeles failed miserably except those who went to QF)(Did I here someone mention an aged small paddock?)
Those who call for a strong, unified union need a monumental reality check as a union is only as stong as its memebers and their unity.
A union with weak members, a union without a united sense of direction, a union which within it has members who have demonstrated they care liitlle for their fellow man forming a cancer within, is doomed to failure.
Management recognising and understanding these weaknesses can, and will, exploit them ruthlessly.
It is little use whinging and whining about it if you are not prepared to pay.
Losers whine about the past and what could be, winners go home and fcuk the Prom Queen!