Airline pilots may be next in the corporate war on unions

US commercial pilots are one of the few remaining strongholds of America’s diminished labour movement, but Flexjet is trying to upend that conventional wisdom. Anti-union advocates are watching as a battle between the Teamsters and the jet-leasing company plays out, with one non-profit group representing Flexjet employees who are pushing to get the union out. Some 550 pilots will start voting Wednesday on whether to embrace the company’s entreaties to dump the Teamsters, which arrived at Flexjet just a few years ago. The govt-supervised vote, which will be held electronically through May 30, comes 2 years after the pilots narrowly voted to join the union. Since then, the Teamsters have been unable to secure a contract deal with the company. <br/>