Interesting. My belief was that forces more .. sinister ... were at work. But this could easily be attributed to horrid personnel practices. This is one of the EXTREMELY FEW CASES where unionization might serve a role.
Nothing more sinister than greed at work here... ask any airline pilot how things are going since 9/11.
I am no union fan, especially ALPA. The Unions just roll over all the time at the expense of the members just to keep the gravy train alive. Crew rest is just a non-winner when negociating. Face the facts, the airlines will not hire more crew and just consume the ones there right now.
My wife timed out for the year in Oct of her last year she flew, nearly killed her. All she bid on was a start time essentially, every day was considered “an operational emergency” and the contract was ignored. Much akin to a huricane or major snow storm, type operations The operational emergency was the fact the big D was in Bankrupcy! I wish I could make this crap up. ALPA just went along with it and yawned...