As a fellow pilot on the outside looking in and observing the plight of todays organized pilots unions, I can offer several observations. As the management side of the house has evolved into what it is today by constantly changing and adapting to new rules, technology, business practices etc, the unions themselves are very slow to react. An old management addage I learned in college was " the ability to survive is the ability to change and adapt. There appears to be a bunch of vanilla thinkers( albeit smart) and not too many folks thinking outside the box with new ideas and ways to run todays modern union. Just think of the collective intelligence that you already possess in the pilots membership. There must be some thinkers that have radical ideas ( yes you need those too )and forward thinking ways to adapt todays union to combat the way it is getting abused by modern management. I've seen some clever ideas posted on this web site so there are some pretty good heads out there, there are also a lot that are happy with the staus quo or not happy but unwilling to do more than the minimum. I guess my basic question is, How come the unions haven't evolved as quickly as the management side of the house? Striking is very effective when done right and so is the work slow down, but there has more effective ways that are quick and easy to implement and cause management to seriously think about the repercussions.
Please don't look at this thread as a divider, I would like to see new ideas explored for a profession that needs a lifeline. This coming from a corporate pilot who has observed the past 20-30 years of aviation and witnessed the degradation of the professional pilot.
Please don't look at this thread as a divider, I would like to see new ideas explored for a profession that needs a lifeline. This coming from a corporate pilot who has observed the past 20-30 years of aviation and witnessed the degradation of the professional pilot.