Is it wise to piss off the folks that keep the planes airworthy?
Per the snippet...
According to the complaint, Southwest began experiencing an "uptick on cosmetic and other minor maintenance write-ups that do not have an effect on the safety of the flight," like a missing row number for an airline that doesn't assign seats, which spiked almost 400 percent to 500 percent after Feb. 10, 2019.
Even union people wouldn't let an unsafe plane fly.
Falsifying maintenance logs would expose them to criminal prosecution.
It seems to me that it isn't wise to piss off the people paying your salary and, by extension, the union dues.
That’s some shady sh*t right there. The sad thing is, the ones who pay aren’t the union thugs orchestrating this. It’s the customers and the mechanics. There are lots of guys getting out of the Air Force and Navy Aviation wing that want jobs. It doesn’t take much to replace someone these days. And they way they advertise aviation maintenance training, one should be very careful in thinking that they cannot be replaced.
Nonsense.
They both can and will sooner or later. That is what unions do, cause pain, misery and death until they get paid off.
After all, they are protected as long as what they are doing is part of a "labor dispute".