This is generally seen as a management problem they can easily solve by paying *all the pilots* appropriately, including the new hires. This comes up from time to time when airlines are struggling to staff appropriately, but I hope most of our new hires will make the decision based on something more substantial than a few months of pay disparity.

Since this is one of the few pieces of leverage available to motivate management to increase our pay during negotiations in which nearly every form of self help is unavailable to us, unions generally refuse management offers to raise pay or offer bonuses to new hires without addressing the problem for every pilot on the list.