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It was the first shareholder meeting for United Airlines in five years and might have been an event for employees to cheer the resurgent company's emergence from bankruptcy. Instead, it was a morning of labor unrest and drama, signaling what analysts predict could be a summer of discontent for airlines and travelers. About 400 United pilots, flight attendants and mechanics marched outside the main south entrance of Chicago's Field Museum, brandishing signs reading "Fix It Now" and "We Are United, They are Pigs" to protest a management team that union leaders contend is overpaid and out of touch with workers.