Basically unions suck, and have no role in a competitive economy other than for preventing safety abuses and deviations by management.
Spoken like a true blue tory...
Airline Pilots by the sheer nature of the beast have to work for large organisations, they cannot be self employed (unless contract but thats a different matter), so there is no other way than some form of union membership, end of story.
The modern professional union is far removed from the 70's version, maybe you should research it a bit more before saying such drivel.
Modern airline 'management' makes union membership
essential.
Edited to add that I have just noticed Re heat says he is a beancounter... sums it up really
Just wait until you make it to the 'flightdeck' as you seem to aspire to, reckon your view will change... if not beaten out of you by some straight talking skippers...
