"Tom S." wrote in message
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...screw the union.

Ah! The true voice of management rears its ugly head. Booo.

I find a policy of an employer "screwing" his employees out of
their
just wages so repugnant, that it smacks of despotism. It also
forces
other FBOs to perpetrate the same indecent demands on the flight
instructors in their employ to remain competitive. It's a bad
practice, and it takes a dignified professional to stand up and
express his disdain for it. It's a form of blackmail, not unlike
the
legal definition of sexual abuse, pure and simple.

Perhaps the time has arrived for flight instructors unite and form
a
labor union.

Then we can all go to Mexico, China, India, etc., etc., etc for our
flight
training.

Why would we do that?

How many millions of jobs have been moved out of the country because of
unions?

And how many have moved because foreign workers are more literate and
better
versed in English (reading & writing) than their American counterparts?

There's a lot of factors in the present "brain drain":

* Labor costs (particularly for the unskilled and those with marginal
skills) and labor laws (some okay, most political game playing)
* The alphabet soup of Federal and state agencies
* Tax Rates, and more importantly, TAX POLICY.
* Environmental regs
* Marginally literate workers
* Poor work habits/ethic
And on and on...

Americans, for the past few generations, have voted for a pristine,
risk-free, comfortable world, with no worries, no hassles, everything
guaranteed...cradle-to-grave.

What they are getting is exactly what they DEMANDED, it's just not what
they
expected.

Oh, I almost forgot!!

Our idiotic tort system (so how is John Edwards doing in his presidential
bid?).