Era isn't the same company it used to be. It's now TexAir with a new name. The former Era pilots are leaving in bunches, saying they refuse to work for bottom-feeders. There may still be a union in Era's future.
And Jerry's Kids may not be that far away. So far he's getting along by paying more money for relative new-hires, but we'll have to see how far that goes. They're having lots of accidents, but the bottom-feeders they fly for don't seem to be concerned yet. They have insurance.
There have been studies published in Scientific American, among other journals, which show that the most productive, most profitable companies have unions, and give the unions some say in how the company is run, and pay their employees well. The worst, by far, are those with a union and an adversarial relationship with the unions. Companies without unions are somewhere in the middle. But if you have no management experience, and don't read much, then you probably don't know this, or if you do, you don't care. Offshore helicopter managers are one or the other. I prefer to believe they don't know, but I'm afraid they don't care.