Originally Posted by
BobbyLeeSwagger
The ball is kinda in our court collectively amongst regionals. The mainline cartels 'as it were' who set the 'hour standards' for us to attain to as we fly 300-400 of their pax a day in their regional planes 'getting our experience for them' continue to exploit us with this whole ponzie/pyramid scheme that is the CPA industry. I couldn't afford $17 an hr in 2008 and didn't come in till later, and now the tables have finally turned, so excuse my French when I say this, but SHNYKIES, we shouldn't be extending contracts from 2013 SMH SMH!!! We finally have some leverage, we just dont realize our own value. Our contracts should make us so expensive that it undermines the point of CPA.
The hard part is, in order to take back the industry we have to give up our jobs, but we always fear a loss of flying.
Ok maybe it's more like 200 to 300 of their pax, but whatever. You get the point. It's the same as the 757 crew doing lax to jfk. This topic makes me get a little hyphy, like keak da sneak...
https://youtu.be/d1kIUA0UH9o
I agree extending our contract in this environment was a strange tactic at the very least, especially since we gave up other things as well and gained just a tiny bit. I feel our problem as a small regional union is that we are unable to organize. Compass mgmt is in a great position because our HQ isn't a base anymore. So our average pilot is thousands of miles away from our union heads. Also since MSP is no longer a base we are going to slowly lose all the people who actually want to volunteer a lot of their time to commute on their time off to building C, this should be something we plan for. I wouldn't be surprised if we have to start begging people to run for MEC chairs. Not a good place to be when the company asks for concessions to renew flying contracts.