On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:21:43 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote:

The issue you raise has more to do with the Reagan administration's
changes to labor laws and the influx of illegal immigrants than it
does with any flaws in the way the IBEW is structured. And it has
absolutely nothing to do with professional pilots.

Of course it does, in the manner that you brought it up.

Individuals who obtain their own education and ratings (electrical
licenses) are free to work where they choose.

Those individuals who trained through the union can only work on union
jobs, of which there are fewer and fewer, so they _don't_ work very
much.

The same would go for pilots if the ALPA trained them.

Illegals have nothing to do with the lack of union electrical work, as
they can't get an electrical license with illegal status.