Originally Posted by
Free Mason
33. Jobs promised in last contract. No hiring for all of 2012 or 2013. 757s to be parked and 737s will replace..…pay cut.
Yep we did not hire. Sucks, but how do you force a company to hire when you are overstaffed and the pilot group overwhelmingly approved work rule efficiencies? Ever think this is what the pilots said to do in the survey? Made me wonder too.
I'm not going to blame pilots for voting in a TA, when they were told they should vote for it by their union and the company.
If, the almighty "senior pilot" straw men said they don't need so many vacations why won't you allow me to sell them back and pick up flying? Whose job is it to throw cold water on that for the sake of the pilot group? Maybe the pilot group shouldn't be allowed to vote on things that improve productivity because maybe those kinds of things should never make it to a vote?
The one thing that should be remembered about
may be hiring in 2012 if we voted in the TA, it came out after the TA was dropped in our laps. It was a sales job. And it worked. We had people who were in favor of the TA pointing to that as another reason to vote for it while those who were against the TA said "sales job." On that account, who turned out to be right? I'm guessing the people who said it was b.s. and we wouldn't hire.