Originally Posted by
navinalign
Greenface can you please list all of the "real jobs" so I can apply to them.
Sure, any carrier with a Union contract. That's easy enough.
I also wonder if the carrier that you fly for has the highest pay per seat in the industry or are you undercutting your union brothers and lowering the standards.
And, once again Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a contestant who has no clue how Railway Labor Act contracts are negotiated. FYI, until we have a National Seniority List and one pay scale for ALL air carriers, contracts will continue to be approved at the individual airline MEC/membership ratification levels. For some carriers, there are other considerations more important than just pay...retirement, work rules, etc.
Each MEC/NC must make tradeoff judgments. Pretty simple, if your intellect can grasp the essentials of contracts.
In a perfect world, we would be like Longshoremen or Electricians...You need a pilot, you go to the Union Hall and the most senior unemployed UNION pilot gets the job. Pay scales are set on a National basis. No more undercutting each other just to get a job.
And non-Union pilots who worked outside the Union system would be pariahs...not accepted and shunned by Union pilots. Not allowed to benefit from negotiated Union perks (jumpseats). You want to be treated as a professional? Join the Union. Until then, pound sand.