Originally Posted by
F9 Driver
You guys are missing my point and you are reacting a bit too emotionally. Your union leadership is leading you astray.
As I initially said - i sympathize with your plight. Many here like to talk about the music stopping and what will happen to the F9 pilots. The music stopped 5 years ago and left the 50% of your pilots stuck in the right seat with awful QOL. That sucks.
Your leadership hasn't set any reasonable expectations for what will come out of the mediation process, and is now asking for a strike vote. You'll get a huge turn out and yes vote for that. For what? Leverage? The one thing abundantly clear to management is that you want more than you've got. A strike vote now ONLY sends that message.
You're in a bad spot, working from a deep deep hole. I'm not a management lackey and hope you get "more" but a industry average contract (which is a huge improvment) during these economic times is a bit more realistic.
There was an antagonistic tone in my first post - directed at 357 leadership. They've done you a disservice. It's painful to watch from the outside where, believe it or not, there is support for you getting a better contract. This isn't the right way to do it.
Good luck!
You feign a misunderstood dictum...your first post indicates your disdain for the IBT and pilots who work for the regional that bought your company. It follows the pattern of posts by many F9 pilots on this site and others. Instead of identifying with the plight of fellow pilots or even encouraging them, you ridicule, disparage, and mock those of less fortunate circumstances than yourself. You place yourself above those less fortunate as someone who is better than they are--- simply because you fly a larger aircraft and once worked for an LCC that used to care about its employees. You are a sad, sad, little man.