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Old 07-17-2013 | 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Captain Tony
A-freaking-men! Everyone needs to look long and hard at the loopholes. Don't listen to the union lifers at the road shows giving you a sales job that they don't exist. That's how we got screwed last time. 90% of the pilots only look at compensation.
There is way too much loose language in our current contract and too heavy a "working relationship" with management to believe it will all just disappear suddenly in one contract. How many sales pitches does this pilot group need to fall for to realize we get scammed every single time without having the hard language to back it up? Everything that gave the company discretion has been exploited and abused. Remember PBS was going to result in 10% reserve staffing? Remember how unstacking was only there for extremely rare abnormalities and maybe a holiday month if necessary*? now it's used because we dont have the staffing to operate our block hours. When there is a TA everyone needs to sit down and thoroughly read it on their own somewhere quiet and not listen to the sales pitches in the crew lounges, because most of them dont have to fly and be exploited by the loopholes they sign.