Originally Posted by
Short Bus Drive
The $37/hr is second year pay at Skywest. Second year pay at CAL is $20/hr more, and UAL was only $15/hr more.
AND there is more than one type of aircraft to fly at UAL/CAL. And there were only a few classes that didn't make it to second year pay at UAL. So I am not understanding the comparison here?
Bus Driver,
The comparison was in response to a fellow UAL pilot who turned down the Jets for Jobs offer. I do not blame him at all, but questioned the uniform application of the principle used.
The Jets for Jobs put UAL pilots at 2nd year pay during their 1st year. If $37/hr is too low for 1st year RJ pay, my comparisson was saying that $31/hr or $33/hr to fly a B737 or A320 is even worse. Sooo... if we say $37/hr is an insult (which it is), we degrade our profession by offering our new hires
even less!
No ALPA contract should ever go out for a vote with welfare wages at the entry level. The heavily skewed pay scales destroy the ablity to have any career mobility, and shackle the pilot to his or her company for better, or most often worse.
Lets fix this mess and build contract pay scales from the base up.
SP