Originally Posted by
TonyC
So, as long as it doesn't make your paycheck any less, you're OK with that? If everyone else got a $500 pay raise, but you stayed the same, that would be OK?
If The Company has money to spend on pay raises, why shouldn't ALL pilots share in the increase?
When it comes time during the next round of negotiations to choose between a pay raise and improving another benefit, don't be surprised when the 10-year benefactor is less interested in the pay raise than you are, because he already got his. You'll have different goals, and fuel for the internal pilot feud, instead of banding together towards common goals.
Lots of me, I, and mine ... whatever happened to we and us and our? You're not thinking about your collective best interests, and St. George is celebrating.
Won't affect me. Hang on to that selfish attitude.
How many days of vacation does a 1st year pilot get? How about the 10-year Captain? Vacation is an earned benefit. If the company can afford to hand out more vacation days, why not distribute them fairly, as in by seniority?
You apparently don't understand everything that seniority is supposed to give you.
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I understand seniority and longevity perfectly. I'm just not as fanatical about it as most all pilots.
Let me put it this way, I don't really care enough to get worked up about someone making $20/hr more than me. So it doesn't bother me if inc is celebrating. They've been celebrating for 7 years when our MEC rolled over on One List, which was astronomical more important than this. This has nothing to do with selfishness, on the contrary! I'm more than happy if people have it better now than I did when I was hired. I'm not one of those who feel that if I didn't get it, no one else should. Also, keep in mind that this is also a pilot group that allows pilots to come back with their seniority after being gone for as long as 90 days. And in fact, I would be okay with being more generous with that. I was part of the FFDWG that was working towards seniority portability back in 2008. I'm all for it, along with keeping longevity. So in other words, you couldn't be more completely and totally wrong about me. I'm one of the most generous pilots when it comes to letting pilots come over to my seniority list with all their benefits. As for negotiating pay rate increases or work rules, I'll pick work rules almost all the time. So that argument doesn't work either.
But that's not what's happening here. We something that allows longevity portability. And we are currently negotiating increase in pay rates for everyone. So like I said before, no one is coming here other than as a new hire at the bottom of the seniority list. Seniority and longevity are two separate and completely different things.