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Old 07-05-2011, 08:52 AM
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Default Pilot Unrest hits the online front page....

..of the Houston Chronicle..

Now it's on the front page of the business section

Strong feelings from United Continental’s pilots | Loren Steffy | a Chron.com blog

The best press is "free" press
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Old 07-05-2011, 08:59 AM
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Ahhh, the Houston fish wrapper.
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Old 07-05-2011, 09:00 AM
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Thanks, and here's his article from Sun., good to see it gettng attention.

Loren Steffy: Labor talks at United are up in the air | Business: Loren Steffy | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
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I can see the next headline! "Management offers Delta plus + 1$ and those rich greedy pilots say NO!" This should have stayed out of the paper. The general public doesn't understand pay rates or contracts.
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We gotta start somewhere, and I'm sure liking the beginning of this.
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Originally Posted by missingbite View Post
I can see the next headline! "Management offers Delta plus + 1$ and those rich greedy pilots say NO!" This should have stayed out of the paper. The general public doesn't understand pay rates or contracts.
NO!!!

Could NOT DISagree with you more.

The devil is soooo buried in the details.....in JUST the SCOPE section alone (DAL+$1).....DAL pilot's, please feel free to chime in.

Are we supposed to coddle to Jeff as he is already 'airing his dirty laundry' via the company composed website that they launched containing this POS????

OH, I forgot....or did you NOT remember from POS'02??? "Please sir, may I have another"??
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Originally Posted by missingbite View Post
I can see the next headline! "Management offers Delta plus + 1$ and those rich greedy pilots say NO!" This should have stayed out of the paper. The general public doesn't understand pay rates or contracts.
Bingo-especially in this economy, most people reading it will unfortunately will see passing on an "industry leading contract" as greed. Pax will most often take out frustrations on the front line employees. All I hear about in airports are delays, airfares going up, full flights, etc. They associate these issues with those they interact with on the planes. Until they live the life, they would never care to understand.
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Originally Posted by SoCalGuy View Post
NO!!!

Could NOT DISagree with you more.
I pray you are right! When people ask me what a major airline pilot makes and they hear $135.00/hour they about hit the floor. It takes time to educate them what that means. They just don't understand.
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Exactly SoCal, disputing the effects the public had during summer 2K
is to ignore one of the biggest pressures put on mgmt. in some time.
Needing to educate flyers is part of the information/media/involvement process.
Not easy, but well worth the effort.
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Quote from said article.

"Clearly, management hoped to have a collective agreement in place by now. Yet after almost a year of negotiations, the two sides remain vastly far apart on economic issues. The last proposals submitted by each side differed by about $1.3 billion a year, according to a United website devoted to the negotiations."

Notice how the slant of the article makes management look like they are want something and the pilots are asking for too much??
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