For what it's worth, my advice is to learn how to put a value on your skills and know how to bargain ethically. The managers in charge of hiring won't have an option soon but negotiate for the skills they need. The unions don't hold the leverage these days like they did in the 60's and 70's. The leverage was with the employer throughout the end of the 80's, 90's and recently. It's now swinging into the individual's hand. There'll be many senior/incumbent pilots that will moan and groan wanting union representation, but they'll soon find out that individual bargaining will work for them too.