Originally Posted by
gzsg
You raise all the important points. Management is one by one showing their true colors. Death by 1000 cuts. They are making enemies of the pilots with each heavy handed policy.
What is so amazing is they brag about the great relationship with the pilots and they are making sick money, why are they treating us so poorly??
Greed is one of the 7 deadly sins for a reason. IMO it will only get worse. Appeasement will only increase management's lust for concessions.
I've been saying this for years. "Death by 1000 cuts" is the game plan. Paint us into a corner so that one day, we have no options other than fly to the max every month for straight pay, take reroutes and never call in sick. Or face the wrath of management on your career. Then what's next... "why did you divert?... That airplane's not broken, take it or quit. You're fatigued? We're going to put you on administrative leave while we look into that. We'll get back to you."
I'm sure lots of guys who voted for TA12 are surprised that all the things they said the company 'would never do', that they are doing exactly that. This isn't your grandfather's Delta. This is 21st century pilot pushing at it's finest.
Wake up and smell the management fellas. It's happening.
They are becoming uber-rich while telling you that you need to 'stay humble' and be thankful that you could give up profit sharing and contractual benefits for your micro-raise. All while they give other employees hot dinners, cash cards, free uniforms, paid special assignments while pilots 'volunteer'. Nice. We don't have a representational problem. We have a membership problem. No union in the world can help us if we don't start standing up for our profession.