UNION at AMC doing a better than average job considering circumstances.  

"Its somwhere between mediocre and underwhelming."

What are you doing about that? How are you improving work conditions, benefits? Paying your dues dues not count, everybody does that, excluding your Beck Rights exclusion.

Nothing, huh? Except bitching and moaning a/k/a whining, making somebody else represent you.

Your employer probably has legal staff, employment law on staff or at beck and call. Do you? Representation evens that out somewhat.

Before my I left my previous previous employer, they fired a guy with 5 years of productive experience because he had red hair. Or because he was named Bob and we had 3 other Bobs at the base. Or he wasn't related to anybody in management. I worked with Bob his whole career at that base, he never shirked or caused issues with the customer.

He did not, would not fly an aircraft with an existing discrepancy, which the maintenance manager found issue with. Think about that for a moment- you get in your aircraft to discover X, Y or Z is inop and you take the issue to maintenance. They tell you it's been like that for a while, the other pilots flew it, why can't you? Of course you write it up, insist that it be corrected, CNDed or deferred- right? But Bob didn't play along...