Originally Posted by
NikeBuddy
Voting down TA's (Delta, etc), and griping about the company you work for (all pilots!) is a LONG WAY from your OWN UNION telling you to LEAVE! Equating the two is not an honest comparison. The more we poo-poo the conditions here (in comparison to our direct competitors) the further we are from a solution.
I realize some are happy flying otters, etc etc. Great! People here didn't choose to do that. They chose to fly a 747 around the world on 17 day trips, and should be compensated as such.
"over-exaggerate the virtual salt mine conditions we labor under every day"
Seriously?! Please promise us that when the negotiation rubber meets the road sometime this year that you won't go sounding that nonsense in the flight deck. Sit down and have a read of our competitors contracts...get back to us on that exaggeration.
I appreciate your desire to be moderate in tone...but is it really time for that?
Your original ill-informed post has so many wrong assumptions it is nearly pointless to discuss it here.
However, just a quick note about THE union -- have you given even one moment of thought to why they sent that message out? Did you stop to think THE union may have a motive here?
One can fault the company all day long here, and even some of our pilots that do the company's bidding and violate our own CBA...but don't think for a minute that THE union is to be blamed here. Quite the opposite -- how many times have you heard our own leadership tell us to follow the CBA, don't do any favors, don't do HDQ staffers' jobs, etc etc...
Okay, your post is ****ing me off, and I'll will not let you raise my blood pressure. I'm outta here...goodnight.