Originally Posted by
Utah
Nevets, why do you care what happens at SkyWest?
Or let me put this another way, would you like to see us get a 5% raise or a 5% pay cut. I get the feeling you'd love to see our pay cut.
Frankly, after the BS your union pulled on 70 seat rates, you shouldn't run your pie hole all that much.
Another straw man argument thrown again.
I care just like everyone else cared what pinnacle and eagle got.
And I would love to see you guys get 5% raises. Actually, I would rather you do better and at least get parity with our current total compensation. That would at least not hurt us. As for the arbitrated rates, they were arbitrated. That means that a neutral third party decided it for us. It's at least on par with others total compensation on similar aircraft.
Originally Posted by
Is offline
Skywest is my third regional. First shut down now second filed bk and I wasn't sticking around for crap pay and crappy contract. Both were alpa carriers. At my time at the alpa carriers one being pinnacle you could get nothing done. Call someone on the phone ten times and no answer. Send five emails and no response. CrewTrac treated us like a bunch of monkeys. Since I have been at Skywest not one of these things has happened. You have a problem with payroll call and they answer and fix the problem. Crew support is friendly and will accommodate drops and swaps even for reserves. Even with pinnacles new contract Skywest can still operate cheaper than pinnacle simply due to efficiency. I voted no on pinnacles contract, and I didn't sit around complaining how bad pinnacle was. I left and came to Skywest to have a better life. It is a shame that other regionals want Skywest to get "theirs" just because they are stuck in a crappy position.
Your union is only as good as its members. I'm positive that if Skywest was ALPA, they would run a tight ship.. They already do, because of its pilots.
As for being treated like monkeys,that's all on management. Every airline is one new CEO away from being the same.
Fact is that you can't make an honest intellectual correlation you are making.