Originally Posted by
AboveAndBeyond
I people are unhappy at TMC, why don't they leave? Go to another job.
This is just as absurd as fast food workers voting in a union and asking for $15/hr. If you want to earn $15/hr, go get a job that pays $15/hr. If no one will pay you $15/hr, that means that you are not worth that money.
Amazingly Short sighted, Above.
The reason that we call the Majors, the Majors, is because their pilots did the same thing that the TMC pilots are doing now, 83 years ago... They stood up against what would now be considered bottom feeder Part 135 management tactics and fought for 83 years to get and keep what they have now, starting with safety. Netjets used to be a crappy place to work before their pilots fought to make their company a better place better to work. While we're at it, AMERICA used to be a third world country with slavery, indentured servitude, debtors prisons, women locked in factories, and kids chained to sewing machines. I would recommend Upton Sinclair's The Jungle to get an idea of how life in America was before the workers rose up against the Robber Barrons and helped to create the American Middle Class.
If everyone in America had followed your above logic, America would still be a Bangladesh-like third world nation. When American Labor rose, America rose and the Robber Barrons did just fine after the Depression. Today, nobody blinks an eye when CEO's demand billions in stock options and millions in pay more than their front line workers, but God forbid any of these minimum wage pawns rise up and ask for more money. Sure, there is a limit to what a McDonald's employee should make, just as there is a limit as to what a McDonalds CEO should make. Unfortunately, there are plenty of minions trying to maintain and improve managements pay and QOL, but very few fighting to improve the lives of their front line workers.
Starting a union is the right of most American workers, and fighting to keep one off their property is the right of the American companies. Companies regularly decide to keep a union off the property by simply improving pay and QOL of their workers. This too, is the American way. FlexJet did this years ago, and good for them. They were smart unlike management at TMC. Same with Southwest, who embraced their unions.. So really, TMC Management really will be the ones responsible if the Union is certified there. And then, it will be a long, arduous task to get a contract, and improve on that one, and the next. And thus, this was how the majors were created...