I agree this is a site for professional pilots.
However we should not restrict to pilots only, the team is far more complex than that, it includes or should include any employee in the aviation field.
We have seen media hacks and persons like al446 enter this environment seeking to obtain information and offer opinions for which they are certainly not qualified.
We do not live in a perfect world and there are many who post here who do so in such a manner as to provoke rather than advise or council.
Having spent many years in the industry, I have seen unionists who are so myopic that they would rather see the company they work for be closed down than compromise their unionist ideals. (I am all right jack syndrome)
Others are more reasonable, but i have yet in 36 years to see the main pilot union BALPA work for anything other than BA or the BALPA self interest.
More has been done by local company councils working with management than via unionism.
We have seen here the posting of a unionist (al446) and if you think that this is the type of person you wish leading you in negotiations, by all means bring in a union into whatever company you work for.
There will always be self interest union or not but for me a moderate approach has always proved more effective.
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This section "Ryanair Thoughts" has now gone off topic can we please get back on topic or close this thread.