Slightly off topic but still within the aviation industry, Boeing has just announced it's going to create a 2nd production line away from its traditional home of Seattle to South Carolina. At least one reason for the move is that South Carolina has been the industrial action (at times for weeks on end) by the machinists union every time their pay contract came up for review. The company had such a fractious relationship with the union that they saw it in the long to expend a massive capital outlay building a new production line for the 787 rather than continue dealing with the machinists strike tactics every few years.
Boeing Assembly Line ANNOUNCED: South Carolina Picked For New 787 Plant I would imagine that the Boeing machinists union had much the same convictions that the company cannot do without them and thus they thought they had the upper hand every time, come pay negotiations as perhaps BASSA do? Something to think on anyways.