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Old 12-31-2011 | 07:20 AM
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From: Bench Warmer-Put me in coach!
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Originally Posted by EWRflyr
I've not met one pilot who is chomping at the bit to get into DEN or ORD. ...
Originally Posted by EWRflyr

I understand your anger and respect your opinion, but it is misdirected IMHO.


The only guys other than senior Captains that want to go to DEN or ORD are the group of furloughed L-UAL pilots who I am a part of. We have been furloughed twice, stuck on the CAL seniority list under CAL's draconian work rules as a new hire, and we won't see a raise for over 5 years... not even a $1/year raise.

"Each and every time we say "it can't get any worse", it always, without fail, DOES! "

This quote is my favorite as it usually happens to those of us at the bottom. I am ready to fight for a better contract, but after being hired in 1999, I am tired of being on the bottom. I have 1,437 bretheren who are with me as they have felt the screw twice. We need something fomm either union who both claim to represent us. If I can get out of EWR and get LAX, DEN, or ORD; then I will.

I remember the senior folks telling me that they didn't furlough me, the company did. Well, I and my fellow CAL pilots (At least that is what I am told daily who I am; especially since the UAL Furlough Coordinator came to our class and told us that we were still considered furloughed by L-UAL)aren't screwing you, the company is.

If you want to pull on the same side of the rope, then let's bring it against the true enemy-the company and management that has screwed us both. Let's bring it to the contract table and get it done. Then I can figure out what the hell I am.... A United Pilot. That's what I signed on for 12 years ago.

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