TOO INEFFECTIVE?
Good Grief, Cisco!
I'm surprised you haven't contacted the Teamsters! Would you be happy then?.....or better still, go to whole hog American-style and get in touch with Sam Giancana's relatives to complete the picture! Sometimes you're a wicked lad! I wonder if you're purpose is just to be naughty, and to contribute zip? Its been a while since we had a helpful imput from you!
Raas767
I agree with you fully, that in the case of the United States, the environment was such that militant trade unions were an inveviatable consequence of management abuse, but this was, relatively speaking, in the dark ages. The middle ground is this:-
If you remove the appalling threat of utter paralysis and airline collapse from industrial negotiations....and look how things go at the moment. "Shoot for the moon, and settle on something less", scope clauses and all the rest of the nonsense....an airline can truly compete in the market place. Lets not forget that the very reason airlines exist is to provide air transport as demanded by the market. If the market changes, so too must the airline. This is fundamental, and is made fundamentaly impossible where unions are known to object. As has been shown by the Belgian Cockpit Association, unions are prepared to cut their own throats in order to preserve their absurd privillege. Managements and boards of Directors know this, and hire people who are combat managers, rather than airline managers. You get the kind of management you deserve, after all.
Terms and conditions are proposed by management. Their are either accepted or rejected by the workforce. If they are rejected, the pilots takes his flightbag and goes to the competitor who's conditions are more to his likeing. An airline without pilots doesn't get very far, and the market will determine whats on offer.
Unions are the threat to pilot employment. If they hadn't been so intransigent and so militant, more pilots would have found work in the past decade, right across the world. The time has arrived for a more mature relationship with employers. The inverse is equally true.
We pilots can make it happen individually! We don't need corrupt ineffective (hello Cisco) militant cosh-swingers from another era, screwing everything up for all concerned. Lets go for a union free world.