Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
More than you think (or are willing to admit). This isn't the place to discuss it. And I think you know that.
There is a very simple concept in business that has been proven to be true time after time after time. Employees are your greatest asset. To view employees as strictly a "cost item" and especially to treat them poorly does not usually turn out to be a strategy for success. (Not unless you have someone like DALPA running interference for you.)
We're being paid as if our company was on the verge of bankruptcy... at a time when our company is making billions in profits.
What?
You constantly use SWA pilots as a gold standard. SWA pilots have never exceeded the C2K contract. Or IPA's contract. And they absolutely are treated like a cost item. Otherwise they would be paid so much more. Right? So I guess you can't use them as a standard anymore.
Or UPS pilots. Management decided that the size of their pilot group cost too much, so they furloughed a number of them and let management pilots pick up the slack. So you can't use them as a standard anymore either. Forget what they get paid.
And what pilot at Delta gets treated poorly? Honestly. How can you even attempt to use these things as an argument?