And Lead Balloon, subsequent managements have PROVEN that most workers, whether they're wharfies, teachers, public servants, or pilots need the barrier of protection afforded by a union.. .Currently I work under contract to an airline that originally had no unionised pilot group. Because of the aggressive, lying management, the pilots have - out of NECESSITY - now formed a union, and surprise, surprise, they are now achieving some improvements in their working conditions, whereas before the SAME requests were met with sneers or lies.. .Meanwhile, the other contract workers are repeatedly lied to and misled by this management!
My thoughts on unions has done a complete 180 over the past 13 or 14 years - for GOOD reason. Some workers NEED to be protected from omnipotent managers.
The fate of the majority of the Ansett pilots in 2001/02 PROVED that a relative greedy few (scabs) SERIOUSLY affected ALL Australian pilots' futures, in 1989, when they cut the AFAP out of the negotiating process!
[ 04 February 2002: Message edited by: Kaptin M ]</p>