Originally Posted by
172skychicken
Congratulations. Your 16+ year captains will have a higher hourly rate after a couple years. That must be what, 10 percent of your pilot group? Meanwhile, the rest of your CAs take a few years just to catch up to our rates and your FOs never will. And to top it all off, your management now has the ability to offer unlimited new hire bonuses and tuition reimbursement to pilots that aren't even on the property yet. With this TA, you guys completely squandered any negotiating capital you stood to gain if Republic started to struggle to attract new hires. That last item should have been a deal breaker no matter what the rates were. The vast majority of your group was sold out to the benefit of the very top of the list, and pilots who aren't even on property yet. What an embarrassment.
Oh stop it with your nonsense grandstanding. Bonuses don't solve staffing issues. Just ask Trans States Airlines or GoJet, who is offering a $44,000 bonus and still can't fill classes. If the company needs to recruit, they will come to you the Union and negotiate better rates. This wasn't the "last shot." The apocalypse isn't starting. Honestly, if you want to see what "leverage" can get you, look at Mesa and the toilet paper that is their contract.