Originally Posted by
Kill Switch
But do they have questions on their applications like: have you ever failed a training event on the fryer? Have you ever failed a check review on your burger flippings? Of course not.
You can moan, complain and raise hell when you can go next door to the next burger joint and do the same thing without the fear of being black listed from the chain industry!
We all have put a lot of time and money into getting where we are - granted we all aren't happy - but is it worth putting all of it on the line to walk the line? If it was industry wide - sure it makes a reasonable suit BUT the bacon makers aren't going to stick their necks out for everyone else.
Comparing wages to fast food workers is fair, but trying to compare how the two groups go about trying to solve their issues isn't. We all have A LOT more to lose than Johnny Pimpleface.
Well I'm not out here saying hey guys we need to strike...As someone originally stated before it's looking how this group of people are taking the initiative and doing something in such short period of time. They're being pro-active and doing what THEY need to do in order to make a change.
In the past pilots have gone on strike, gotten what they wanted. Slowly fears arose, things changed, and we've gotten more afraid to do things that could help better the industry.
The thing is here that I'm trying to point out is how these folks are taking real initiative. Not to say we're not doing anything as a pilot group, but I think we can all agree that we tend to complain a lot on here, complain in the cockpits, and to who? For what?
Maybe we need to take a different approach who knows, but one thing surely is these guys are really being heard, and there's no reason why we can't as well.
And even in the unlikely event that pilots would strike. I would love to see airlines blacklist a whole group of pilots and then in place try to fill the classes, that many are struggling to fill. Even more so after August 1st.
This shortage of qualified pilots not willing to work on minimal wages isn't nationwide, it's worldwide.
As far as I can see you can't just wave a magic wand and fix that either, in the same breath, you can't wave a magic wand and strike and fix the pilot pay either. It will take time.
We can always learn something from people outside of our group and I hope our pilot group takes notice to this. We're doing something, but we can always do more.