I couldn't agree more with what you've said. I was a member of the IBEW and while entry level wages were higher, top end wages were lower. Not to mention the dues and other contributions that were expected. Then the near pointless meetings. In every other labor job I held they were non-union and the starting wages were lower, but the overall environment was more friendly, and we got a lot more work done. In the end that lower starting wage when you compare the take home, was about the same. So basically in the union you made more to give it to the greedy people running the union. Now working as a sys admin, I would hate it I were somehow forced to be in a union. I might have to climb the management ladder just to stay out of one.

Get your tinfoil hat on, it goes deeper than that. It was someone's wireless computer they used to crack in to the airplane's computer to feed that bad data. We all know that people smart enough to crack in to the system would get on the plane to bring it down.
Oh, even better, blame it on some jyhad extremists. Ha ha ha, since they were bringing down the plane, lets make those vampires so they could fly to safety.
All that just to blame someone else for a mistake, and to fortify the un-found claims that wireless electronic devices shouldn't be used while in flight.