Originally Posted by LarryJ
The union can be effective in preventing arbitrary discipline or termination but it can't prevent a carrier from enforcing bona fide job performance standards nor terminating those who will not, or can not, comply.
Short of physically assualting a passenger, anyone in a union working for an airline is never going to get fired. That is how unions work be it an airline, the UAW, teacher's union, doesn;t matter. Once you're in, you're in for life no matter how incomptenet a worker you are. US steel was destroyed because of it, US auto is close to death because of it and airlines are following in their footsteps.