Originally Posted by
SEPfield
The letter about the bonus from the union is out.
I would like to say that I think it is a very well worded letter that addresses many of our concerns.
That being said I would judge the general tone of the email to be one of resignation and exasperation. It is very clear from this email that the company has no intention of improving anything of substance at PSA. Whether this lack of improvement is the decision of PSA management or as a result of being hamstrung by AAG management is irrelevant. The email implies to me that if there were any of us here at PSA that were still holding on to the small shred of hope that someday things might get better, then we should let go of that hope and accept things as they are. We now have 2 choices; resignation From the company or resignation to our fate. Good luck to all.
The bottom line is this: in the last two years the economic justification for a first year pay in the FFD segment of $25 has evaporated. We're now seeing a movement towards compensation that's the equivalent of $40+ per hour.
There is no escaping, denying, nor sidestepping this new reality. There's no going back to the past when pilots were a dime a dozen and would show up for whatever compensation you decided to offer.
The longer AAG tries to hold it's WO'd carriers to the economic realities of yesterday, the longer those carriers will continue to suffer for lack of pilots. New hires will simply not show up and stick around, as the data in TR's letter has evidenced.
In the long term, they'll probably figure it out, but only inch by inch. As the market continues to change there will be some advantage to being WO, but for now that advantage is out in the future and not today.