Originally Posted by
bradthepilot
I don't think you get it both ways. If you view someone as "scum" for picking up OT while there are still pilots sidelined, it is logically inconsistent to view someone who is ok with furloughs so long as they get their guarantee as anything other than scum. Or vice versa.
Personally, I'm happy to accept a temporary (i.e. reviewed-each-month) reduced monthly guarantee if it helps keep someone around longer.
Whatever the MMG goes down to becomes the ceiling once bankruptcy starts. At that point, it might take years/half a decade/more to get back what was lost. Assuming one didn't sit on the couch the entire time, a one-to-two-year furlough with a return to full MMG might actually end up costing less than long-term reduced wages.
In order to protect that long-term MMG for everyone, you'd have to take the furloughs over the initial hit to MMG.
If I could 100% guarantee that a hit to MMG would be temporary and absolutely result with no furloughs, then I'd be in. I don't trust the company to not furlough later anyway, though, and I don't trust a bankruptcy court to not make MMG concessions semi-permanent.