Originally Posted by
272922
Regardless of how you're paid your total compensation is defined by the underlying market forces. If you "fix the rates" and then the market turns, if you try and keep your rates while everyone else lowers their pay to adjust for the new normal, well, you get to be the next Comair.
So by all means, go for the rates, or however else you think you should be paid, but don't kid yourself that locking in pay rates insulates you from economic downturn.
It does make it harder for them to take it back.
I'm not going to play scared to be the next Comair, they already did that to us and now we are being paid tens of thousands of dollars less per year.
Yeah the new guys are being paid more like they always should have, now for the rest of us that paid in blood for this.
We have the upper hand.
Pay.