Originally Posted by
billyho
It's all about US! If we vote no and get shut down we don't have the get out of jail card Envoy has! You gonna pay my bills??? Our FO's gonna go to Compass and Mesa where the contract and work rules are actually not as good as ours. Nor is there vacation bidding or insurance. Really???? Learn about our contract and other facts before you just start spitting out pay rates. Payrates and pay credit. You can have all the pay you want but if your pay credit is 80hrs what do you have compared to someone that gets 90-95hrs?? People are such idiots when putting some much emphasis on just pay rates. Our CEO would have given up much better pay rates but then our working contract would've probably messed with.
Ask Republic how important work rules are compared to pay rates.
Nowhere in this thread did I "spit out pay rates" on anything. So with that nonsense aside...
Look at the industry as a whole. Pilot work groups are a valuable asset, and that value is only increasing. To shut one down completely at this time just for fun would be recklessly foolish. Companies even smaller than yours have voted down concessions in the very recent past and are still in existence. Within AAG it is blatantly obvious that a merger is in the works AND that Piedmont is a part of that plan... REGARDLESS of how you vote.
We at Eagle are ready to stand by your side and improve this profession together.