Originally Posted by
RJSAviator76
Slip, it’s good that you keep bringing up SWApA and caution against electing self serving bozos giving away the store and selling it as a “gain”, but you cannot let that handicap you.
"We" handicapped ourselves by ratifying one concessionary contract and side letter after another. We could've voted no, but most of our folks don't even read the entire TAs and SLs before voting yes. TA2 was no exception.
You also can’t say stuff like we are lagging our peers without taking a look at the whole enchilada. Your main beef is no heavies and associated flying.
My main "beef" has nothing to do with heavies or it's associated flying. At my age, I have no interest in doing that.
The point I've made, repeatedly, is that since we don't have higher paying aircraft (IE:Heavies), your pay vs. that of your peers with similar seniority at legacies will lag as you get more senior at SW, unless you work more days per month to make up for it.
My "beef" is with guys constantly saying that because they
can work extra, we don't need higher pay rates. It's been going on as long as I've been here, so forgive me if your arguments sound sickeningly familiar to me.
It’s interesting listening to my legacy buds and their gripes... funny. I think we have it better especially living in base. But then again, different strokes for different folks...
I think I have it better, in many ways, than many of my peers of similar seniority, (who are typically wide body Capts at my seniority level) at the legacies too. That doesn't change the fact that I have to work more days than they do to equal their pay.
The fact that I
can do it if I so choose in one of the many things I like about our contract.