I submit that it is YOU that is the LEECH, 'rants'.
YOU are the one enjoying the higher standard of labor conditions that ALPA and other unions have brought to OUR profession...while at the same time, ceaselessly bashing said union for brownie points from your boss. That makes YOU the leech.
Further, I don't believe that you're a professional pilot. You talk a fat line, but you're more like a mgt/boss's son type. If you truly cared about the long term viability of being a professional pilot you'd support the Delta boys all the way- more likely, this is something fun and glamorous for you to do until your trust fund kicks in.
Sure, unions are hardly perfect- but try working for long at an outfit without one. 'The only thing worse than a union is no union'. You'll learn this, with some experience.
The first time you're pressured with being fired, into flying sick, fatigued or a broken plane you'll be crying for a union rep to save your job...unless of course, you fly sick/fatigued/broken airplanes, or you're rich and don't care if you're canned, in which case you aren't worth a fart in the wind as a pilot anyway.
TT