Originally Posted by
gzsg
Management came to us because they needed our help. Relief. Concessions.
And we, like we always do, gave it to them.
You can like it or hate it, but pretending that management is not in a big bind with all the training coming their way is disingenuous.
The company obviously wants our help here, or they wouldn't even be talking to us about it, but I fail to see an early out program as a concession.
I see the loss of our highest paying jobs as a "concession". I see the Virgin code share, with them still flying 747's to the US of A, while we are parking ours, as a concession.
Now, how do we want to mitigate that concession? Do we just keep all those senior pilots, crammed down onto your equipment, perhaps displacing a lot of guys to lesser paying equipment? That would be a concession.
OR...do we let them retire early?
I don't see an early retirement program to mitigate displacements as a concession. Perhaps we should use this training waterfall leverage to help fix our JV imbalance?