Originally Posted by
Omnislash
Wouldn't an arbitrator give us about industry average if we didn't come to an agreement with the company? Again, we don't fly anything bigger and may not in any of our time here. Why are you so hung up on a rate for an aircraft that we don't have or even have a reason to believe we may get in the future? By your logic, we should also go insist on getting flight engineer rates just in case it's mandated that we have to start flying with one.
Maybe, maybe not.
If you can't see the difference between management using their bargaining capital to remove a pay scale for an aircraft class we actually have a relatively high chance of flying one day vs arbitrarily fighting for a position that has been completely eliminated in most of the world with 0 chance of ever happening here, it's not even worth discussing this with you anymore.