I like the bee annalogy. But what if all the bees are out in the fields when somebody comes along and smashes part of the beehive, but because it's not the part that the leader bee lives in, they won't come back to fight the intruder until they have finished work?
It has happened before, where unions were very selective in who's interests they represented. I cannot blame pilots for leaving or not even joining, even though I pay my union dues it's still a free world and everybody is entitled to his or her own opinion.