Originally Posted by
Fr8Master
I think every option is preferable to paycuts. Paycuts hurt the entire industry and take years and years to come back. Flight hours come back when demand comes back...pay comes back years after demand is back and unions have to fight and bargain to get it back.
Pay rates are the easiest to get back. Work rules are always harder. Think of it this way, would management give us back our vacation rules when things get better if we traded that to keep pay rates? Never. But they can’t say never to pay rates. Eventually they have to be competitive with pay rates.