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I can't believe I'm reading this. That offer was crap and a joke to any professional pilot. If you are all such family men would you take this crap contract if you had a son or daughter leaving high school wanting to start a pilot career? Pilots have destroyed the regional industry with fear of losing a job. This is the only industry I have worked in where this flies at all. Go ask a construction worker to take a 10% pay cut so they can secure more contracts. Everyone on the job site would walk off. How is it that mechanics and auto workers can stand up for themselves? Is that out of the question for pilots!
When I worked construction we did vote in a paycut. I was in the plumbers union as I worked through college and paid for flight training. At one point we also had to pay 5% working dues. Of course, a lot of guys toured the country, leaving their families behind looking for work. The grass isn't always greener.