But what would unionizing help? It wasn't anything the unions should have power over that burst this bubble. What we all should have done was actually look at the business plans and not take any "new economy" jobs... something we could have done without a union. But we didn't, we bought into the BS just as stupidly as the investors did and now we're paying the price. And it really sucks, and I have friends that prove I was real lucky to land on my feet in only 4 months. But there's no way a union would have helped in any way, and given how unions screw up the wage scale they probably would have made it worse by increasing the necessary number of layoffs. Of course they might have put layoff numbers in the CBA and forced the businesses into a situation where they couldn't cut to sustainabilty and thus caused more businesses to go under outright. Either way unionizing would have resulted in MORE unemployed tech workers, not fewer. As it always has because unions are bad for business.
As it always has because unions are bad for business.
Funny how the most unionized airline in the nation is also the most consistantly profitable - Southwest. I guess management found that if you don't try to screw your unions, your unions will return the favor. When asked why they give management so much flexibility, the SWA unions will all say "because management has NEVER screwed us, even when they had the chance."
Not so at Delta, American, and United. Management at those airlines are always trying to sharpshoot the contract for advantages. The result, the unions are more recalcitrant and paranoid, and it drives their costs up.
I'm sure most on this forum would believe that the RATS are secretly running the unions at the bigger airlines, and that is why management has problems. It fits the statist Pubbie template better than reality.