Originally Posted by
Airsupport
tony but you could have influenced this being a part of sapa right? our mec reps would never come back to us and say,, well this is what we could get out of them guys,, take it or leave it. we have never even voted on the companies pay proposal because our mec thought (and rightly so) that it was just down right pathetic.
Well, I don't think the proposal is pathetic, and I've previously itemized my thinking (on this forum) behind where we were, and where we are. I'm not going to repeat that.
I didn't personally negotiate this pay package... that was handled by the negotiating team. SAPA as a whole voted to put it to the pilots for vote.
Certainly, my personal choice would not have been to give myself a 0000000000000000000000.32% pay increase, but I do support the overwhelming majority who will get a measurable amount of money that we weren't scheduled to get. I voted to let the pilots decide, and I personally voted for the package. A huge, overwhelming majority of the pilots also voted for it.
I will add a bit of perspective of my airline internet experience. It seems that this medium attracts a certain individual that clearly doesn't match the mainstream line pilot at SkyWest. The folks who posted here were probably 95% against the pay proposal, yet in reality were only 25% of the folks who actually cast their vote against it. I'd suggest a somewhat similar comparison to the ALPA vote.
Time to move on from the pay issue.