Originally Posted by
SEPfield
I stand by it. Yes I am a DEC, but my reasons for coming to PSA had nothing to do with pay and all to do with quality of life. If I had gotten a good look at the contact before I started there is a good chance I may have gone somewhere else, but maybe not as I do need some PIC.
Now the real question is; why did PSA need DECs in the first place? Where was the 15k bonus for guys with 1000hrs 121 a year ago? Where in the contract does it state that the company can even hire DECs. The answer is it doesn't. Hiring DECs was yet another concession to the contract that you so adamantly defend. And what was your compensation for that concession? Did it help your movement? Did it help your flow? Do you realize how much money the company saved by hiring DECs? I would guess they saved enough to pay at least 1 new hire bonus per DEC, which you are still not getting.
If the company had been forced to increase pay and conditions a year ago then there would have been no need for DECs. A good contract a year ago would have ensured good movement. Instead I'm here, I'm slowing your upgrade, I'm taking your paycheck, and I'm logging your PIC and you still have the audacity to tell people they should stick to the contract and try to help the company, That mister cotton is the bold move.
Forgive me for finding myself in a bad situation and trying to do what I can to make it better.
The company needed DECs because we grew so quick that we were in need of CAs. How would have increase pay to current pilots, which is what our whole argument is about, made it so we wouldn't have needed DECs? Does pay help new people get 1000 hours quicker? You say a good contract would have insured good movement. Think about what you're saying. PSA didn't have good movement? We had so much movement we had to hire DECs...
I like how in your early post you say any new hire that does any amount of research will see that PSAs contract is bad and then just now you say you didn't do your homework? You say I think new hires are stupid for going for a bonus and not a better contract? Did you not join PSA for as a DEC, which is a bonus for only new hires, with a bad contract? Are you the stupid new hires you speak of? Never once have I defended our contract. You would know that if you had read what I've posted but seeing as how you didn't read our contract I can't expect that can I. For the last time my argument is that management will not pay people like you more because they don't have to. I do not think our contract is good. Doesn't change the fact that pilots on property are willing to fly under it and not go to other airlines. We even have people from other airlines coming here, cough you cough. It makes poor business to pay our pilots more and AA won't do it is my only argument. Not that our contract is good or that the company is great.