Originally Posted by
camper1
Happyflyer, you can't see the forest for the trees.
If you come on these forums and tell potential new hires how great it is here they will keep coming and the classes will stay filled. You are doing the company a favor and you don't even realize it. Full classes = little to no leverage for the pilot group. How do you not see this?
Dude I see everything clearly, new hires aren't going to fix my house.
We have 6 reps for 7 bases, we need 14 reps for 7 bases. If PSA wants to keep opening bases like lemonade stands they need to deal with the red tape that adding extra reps involves. They get everything for free, and only have to satisfy a couple reps, who don't represent the whole pilot group.
The TYS/DCA FO rep is a CA, did he vote for FOs and try to block senior manning upgrades? Or vote in favor of his own flow position to be increased. He's a nice guy I know him, but we don't know how he voted, and he does have inherent conflict of interest being an FO rep as a CA.
Ask yourself why PSA needed 6 reps for 480 pilots and only needs 6 reps for 1,800-2,000 pilots, it's just a conservation of power that the company can manipulate much cheaper than 14 separate opinions.
Blaming mgmt won't fix anything, we need to ask ourselves if it's time to recall reps, and vote for reps who will open new councils.
Why don't we as pilots care enough to force change? Answer is beacsue it isn't that bad, right?
They're so bold now it wouldn't surprise me if they cut a deal to flow 20 a month, but only for 5-10 months then a reversion back to 10. Make sure to pull the ladder up behind them, and maintain an orderly pilot group until then.