For Leo, I ask again him to name 1 airline where the unions have driven it to the wall
Not speaking for L.H.C., but you seem to have been waiting for 2 years...
Eastern:
January 18, 1991. A date which will live in Union Infamy. That is the day that Eastern Airlines expired, with it's last gasps of tortured breath. That is also the day that the Eastern Employee Unions declared "Victory." That is the day that they celebrate, the day they "won the war" against Frank Lorenzo.
Ernie Mailhot was a ramp worker and cleaner at Eastern Airlines and a "strike staff coordinator for International Association of Machinists (IAM) Local Lodge 1018 from December 1989 to December 1990." He declared the demise of Eastern Airlines to be a "victory" for all union workers everywhere.
Here is an excerpt, from an article by Mr. Mailhot, which was entitled The Eastern Strike Was a Victory for Workers:
'Our slogan became that we would last "one day longer" than Frank Lorenzo. This meant that we would never let Eastern run a profitable airline as long as it operated with scab labor. We knew that by achieving that goal, we would help set an example for every other working person in the United States and internationally - our real family, not the "Eastern family."
After 686 days on strike against Eastern Airlines, rank- and-file members of the International Association of Machinists (IAM) and our supporters registered the final piece of our victory against the union-busting drive of the employers when the carrier folded at midnight on January 18, 1991.'
United:
When the IAM (a union comprised of ground service workers and mechanics) failed to approve the loan guarantee (while all other unions approved the loan guarantee), the application was rejected in late 2002 and the company was forced to seek debtor-in-possession financing from commercial sources to cover the expected future losses.
United tried several times to obtain the government loans, even enlisting several congressmen and senators for help. The government rejected the application claiming United "could probably obtain the $2 billion in financing it needs to emerge from protection without a federal loan guarantee."
Unable to secure additional capital, UAL Corporation filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December 2002
Quote:
"[...] thinking of the Kamikaze Union leaders. That is why they deliberately drop bombs on their own ships----Because it is better to destroy jobs, than it is to allow anyone to work of their own free will, without a union contract.
[...] that unions do not create and protect jobs----they destroy them.
Is it any wonder that union membership in the United States has declined from a high of about 32%, in the mid-1950s, to a low of about 8% today, in the private sector? One can only hope that the unions will keep on "winning" those kinds of victories, since the wealth, size and prosperity of the American Middle Class seems to keep growing and expanding in reverse correlation to that decline in union membership"
There are many cases over the course of aviation history where union action has forced airlines to seek Chapter 11.
Granted, union action has not been the sole cause, however, union action has been a significant contributory factor in seeking Chapter 11.
A Pyhrric Victory, but a victory none the less.