Originally Posted by
EA CO AS
Nope, but then again, not everyone chose to pursue a career that requires that.
Everything else you listed?
This may come as quite a shock to you, but those are things that JUST ABOUT EVERY OTHER CO-WORKER OF YOURS DEALS WITH.
Look, I'm not here to argue; I know pilots are damned important, and aren't easily replaced. But using that excuse as rationale to say things like "No waivers! No favors! Fly the contract!" which really means, "I'm willing to screw over my customers and co-workers so I can show management I'm ticked that I didn't get everything I wanted!" isn't a great way to exhibit the value you bring to the table.
The problem is we’ve tried it your way for decades and it hasn’t brought any improvement to our 92% contract. Even though we’ve helped the airline become wildly successful we’ve suffered huge paycuts (Kasher, 2005), Furloughs for profits (2009-2011), and management has used the success we’ve helped create to threaten our airline by grossly over-paying for a start up airline which not only threatens the balance sheet of our airline with debt and integration issues, but also our very careers with a potentially unfair seniority integration. So pardon me if we are done with the status quo. The status quo has gotten us nowhere and now we are going to rock the boat a little bit... maybe if the water starts to come over the side a little bit, management will be forced to build a better boat.