Originally Posted by
WesternSkies
The lifers crying about first year guys getting a bump in pay to bring them in-line with the rest of the longevity scale makes me cringe. Any guy making 100k who wants to hold a guy making 20k back from being made flush with the scale is a pea-wit. Take a good long sit in front of a mirror to see if they can babble this embarrassment with a straight face.
I'm a no vote, but not because company threatens to bring pilots who have been the most egregiously under paid to *almost* in-line with the rest of our scale.
The lame brain M.P. keeps calling them "the not yet hireds". These people, our fellow company pilots *are* hired and they *are* here flying for an entire year on that pay.
If you haven't realized the company plays on our emotions to take care of each other yet, I don't know what to tell you. How many of us were okay taking less money last pay package because the Bro drivers were finally getting what they deserved?
I don't care at all about paying the new guys. Just because I made $22 my first year, I don't think everyone else needs to. The consensus in my opinion is, You need to raise first year pay to get guys in the door, what about the guys that have been making the company money over the last 25-30 years? It makes me sick to see JP say that we can just work with the company outside the pay negotiations for things like PBS improvements and such. BS!! We can't even get the company to do things they have already agreed to do. The negativity you are experiencing is a build up of years of broken promises.