Originally Posted by
Bahamasflyer
Sorry, but nooo one has any appetite to willingly accept pay cuts other than reduced line values. I think it’s safe to say that that was learned the hard way in the 2000s and won’t happen again.
I’m not smart on the airline contracts, but I saw the following go down in a police dept contract negotiation:
Union’s attitude was that it represented current cops, not future cops. Senior cops voted to increase their pay at the expense of more junior cops. They increased top pay, but moved it down the line slightly to appease the bean counters, and cut pay for the first few years to aid with the offset.
What’s to say something similar isn’t negotiated? In a few years, most airlines won’t have any guys under three years...airline pitches a cut in year 0-3 salary, and dangles some other carrot in front of the pilots in order to get it—what do they care about guys who aren’t yet hired?