Rick Starr

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• July 21, 2015, on Unions and Airlines:

  When the UAW strikes, the auto manufacturer(s) shut down, but still have all the capital and other fixed costs to support. When baseball players strike, the league shuts down, but somebody is still paying for the stadium upkeep, front office salaries, etc. When Boeing goes on strike there are no 'replacement workers' who come in and man the factories, and management still gets paid and the buildings must still be maintained and paid for. Your assumption that the pilots shutting down an airline gives them unsurpassed power (enough to extract 115% of profits) does not hold true in any other industry, so I challenge the premise. Do pilots have a lot of power? You bet. What happens when the aviation maintenance facility workers go out on strike? The SAME THING; the industry stalls. Likewise the machinists at Deere, or the Writers Guild for TV production companies. And yet the writers don't control the industry, nor the machinists at Deere. Perhaps your entire argument rests on a faulty s...