Originally Posted by BusJock
So they are very willing to give CAL pilots the profit sharing we earned by enduring a horrible bankruptcy but wait, they never had to go through a draconian experience as we have yet they get our compensatory profit sharing???
Your profit sharing? Sorry, you're right. I didn't earn anything this year, especially after the summer of crediting close to 300 hours on reserve due to lack of crew planning and having my life messed with. I mean I did it all for fun and the goodness of my heart so that YOU could get more money in your pocket. Sounds like a management position: get the big rewards for all the hard work of others.
I apologize if that offends, but your statement really ticks me off. And my response is completely outside my personal opinions of profit sharing and how I view it as a negotiating tool.
So CAL is willing to allow their pilots to bid into ORD and DEN and wherever they elect to put the guppy, the very plane UAL parked yet we are going to be forced to commute from our current domiciles to armpits like IAH, EWR or CLE let alone Guam! Do you see the trend? Give CAL pilots what they want and do so by taking from UAL! Let's see how this would work out now. As a Bus guy in ORD who lives in Chicago, I'm forced to either commute to say IAH or bid another seat in ORD, but wait, I can't bid a guppy seat in ORD cause we don't fly them and CAL does.
Just like we can't bid the Bus to stay in our bases because we don't fly those planes. I've not met one pilot who is chomping at the bit to get into DEN or ORD. BTW, what makes ORD really any better than EWR? DEN I could see. Are you really that naive to think that management wasn't going to terminate the base/domicile protections? Most anyone could see that coming when this thing was signed.
They are getting OUR bankruptcy profit sharing, they are getting our domiciles and we get......ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Nope, not taking away any of the profit sharing that you earned and negotiated. I know it is hard to comprehend but our side of the operation is making profits, too. You are getting access to our bases as well. Since we can't bid each others equipment it means all of our lives get upended.
I thought it was the younger generation with the me, me, me mentality, but I guess we have to look in the mirror to see where they get it from.
You are playing management's game brilliantly, keeping the focus off US vs THEM. I understand your anger and respect your opinion, but it is misdirected IMHO.