To join or not to join?
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To join or not to join?
Having no experience with the unions and possibly being faced with this choice in the future, I was wondering what people thought of them. Good and bad?
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Part of your answer may lie in the "Non flying duties" thread in this forum.
Pilots are their own worst enemies, so whilst 30 years or so ago I might have thought otherwise now I would say your job and life depends on it.
But like any organisation it will only work properly if you all work for it.
It's an increasingly dangerous IR environment out there with more and more individuals ready to do anything and everything, it takes , including their mates, to get where they want to be.
The forces lined up against you are enormous and have a huge arsenal of weapons and dare I say it mercenaries.
OK, Fine but that is where our civilisation has spent the last coupla thousand years coming from, why the headlong rush to go back there.
It's a question of whether you want to belong to a PROFESSION or a rabble.
I am going to get into trouble for saying this but the experience from THAT year should engender an increased motivation for a strong union than otherwise. The union didn't fail them.
It's like being a 'refugee', you can stand and fight the conditions you find uncomfortable and change them or you can run away to what seem like greener pastures.
Part of your answer may lie in the "Non flying duties" thread in this forum.
Pilots are their own worst enemies, so whilst 30 years or so ago I might have thought otherwise now I would say your job and life depends on it.
But like any organisation it will only work properly if you all work for it.
It's an increasingly dangerous IR environment out there with more and more individuals ready to do anything and everything, it takes , including their mates, to get where they want to be.
The forces lined up against you are enormous and have a huge arsenal of weapons and dare I say it mercenaries.
OK, Fine but that is where our civilisation has spent the last coupla thousand years coming from, why the headlong rush to go back there.
It's a question of whether you want to belong to a PROFESSION or a rabble.
I am going to get into trouble for saying this but the experience from THAT year should engender an increased motivation for a strong union than otherwise. The union didn't fail them.
It's like being a 'refugee', you can stand and fight the conditions you find uncomfortable and change them or you can run away to what seem like greener pastures.
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I suppose the question comes down to whether you would like to pay a small amount of money per year to a union for representation and protection or, should the worst occur, pay a consultant (such as myself) for similar service even though it could be quite expensive.
On behalf of my blond mistress and future Piper Seneca IV I would request you choose the latter.
On behalf of my blond mistress and future Piper Seneca IV I would request you choose the latter.
