Define this middle ground you speak of.
We have along history here of giving an inch to management and them takeing a yard, and vice versa also. If you want to get rid of unions then you have to wipe the slate clean and start over again. Remember, when airlines first started flying as airmail carriers in the twentys and thirties pilots formed ALPA because of managements lack of concern for the pilots. They failed to take adequate afety measures and as we all know many of them perished. Many times it is management that brings unions on the property to begin with because they fail to adequately address the concerns of the employees.