Originally Posted by
amcflyboy
Having only been employed by JB just under a year and this being my first ever airline, I'd like to consider myself a transparent person. Even I can point out the JB management B.S. I deal with it all the time in my Guard Unit. I, too, am not crazy about unions, but I do think the mother of all BOHICA's is on the horizon (albeit merger with AMR), and if we don't act soon and vote in ALPA, we're toast! I agree with the lawyers our PVC hired to comprehend our PEA toilet paper...we would be screwed in an acquisition, and I'm not ready to be out on the street without a job...yet!
Agreed.
Mgmt were given a real bird in the hand when unionization was voted down. The "greatest competitive advantage" they were handed was COMPLETE control over productivity! If they had agreed to compensate Pilots above average all across the board, they would still have this, the most significant competitive advantage possible. But, that didn't happen.
What's really amazing, is that Pilots don't even question why.
JJ