Originally Posted by
jayme
I'm no expert, but it seems to me that they are upset that the top 1% of the population are amassing more and more of the wealth, while the rest of us fight over the scraps. Pilot unions should share in that frustration. Instead I don't see any sympathy among this crowd.
Bucking Bar, I haven't seen or heard of anybody suggesting they "despise" anybody making over $100,000 a year (maybe the commentators on whichever new channel you watch?). Just frustration about the growing gap between the haves and have-nots.
The frustration with well-paid management as you are left fighitng over the scraps seems like a pretty clear parallel with the Occupy Wall Street crowd. This isn't an insult, just an observation.
By the way, to be in the top 1% of earners in 2010, you had to make over $380,000.
Jayme, this is an unnecessary conversation. The occupy wall street "movement" is a re-election campaign. The territory you're venturing into here is for political blogs.
As to whether or not pilots should join in solidarity because we are unionized or something along those lines? We're fighting the power in C2012, eh?
We're not fighting the power, we're negotiating our services in exchange for money no different than multi-millionare football players did so with the NFL, no different than the NBA players are doing now, no different than what Delta Air Lines does with GoJet, ASA, Skywest, Pinnacle, Mesaba, Alaska and so on- we're negotiating. They're just demanding stuff for free.