How many union reps get into management

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Originally Posted by Kraftstoffvondesibel

I am one that has switched from union to management, albeit not in aviation. So unions are slightly different things in different countries. In my world there is an understanding that the relationship between owners and unions is about checks and balances. A good company needs both, a company doesn't simply exist to make money for shareholders, but also to keep employees securely and longterm employed at a reasonable wage. If a company can't do that, it is bankrupt.
Yes we fight, both ways, we disagree about wages, conditions, strategy, terminations, but both sides (mostly) recognises this is a symbiosis. You are siamese twins sharing vital organs. One side dies, other one dies.
Switching sides works mostly just fine, you take on different responsibilities, but common survival is still the goal.
I know the US is completely different.

Whilst I agree, and personally believe that the people with the most interest in a company being profitable are those with 30 plus year careers planned out in the same company, I have to say I am rather more cynical than you are about the reality of many shareholders/C suites!