Originally Posted by
atrdriver
Easier said than done.
The problem is XJT's contract doesn't have a 70/76-seat rate, and a rate can be determined outside of contract negotiations through binding arbitration. The arbitrator will say, "Oh gee, those silly Pinnacle pilots just voted for a really low 76-seat pay rate, so that must be what the market is currently." And he will grant the company offensively low 76-seat wages because your ignorant pilots just voted for them.
And then XJT pilots will be whipsawed against ASA pilots, who already have a 2nd year 76-seat rate that is WAY higher than Pinnacle's new top-end rate.
And the cycle continues.
Thanks, guys. Your lack of foresight might become apparent to you when you're sitting in XJT new hire class making a fraction of what you should have been.
Don't put us all in that boat. At least 900 of us have and will vote no to this. The others are very easily duped, gullible, have limited foresight, can't think for themselves, and eat every piece of garbage placed in front of them by the union and management. They will claim that it is better than no job and that they have to feed their families. Yadda, yadda, yadda.