Originally Posted by
Baradium
The response I've gotten is 'we aren't going to waste negotiating capital on something the company should be doing on their own."
I really dislike that line. My regional ALPA said the same thing about absurdly low 1st-year pay (and other new hire issues). When the Company finally needed to fix it for recruitment, ALPA blocked the improvements for years trying to leverage raises for the most senior pilots.