Air Ace,
With respect, you write of utopia. Workers don't have awards or join unions because they want to, they are forced into it by their employers. This appears to be a classic case in point. It seems NJS are doing this ONLY because the current laws allow them to.
There are hundreds of fine employees at NJS, and it seems weird that all of a sudden they (NJS) are hell-bent on sticking it up them.
Anybody who says AWAs are the way to go for a large aviation organisation, where the pilots hardly ever see the boss, let alone have him actually seeing them doing their job, just doesn't understand (or is a non-team backstabber willing to crawl over others to get into the left seat).
