It is when people say they are comfortable being compensated less for it. It’s a myth anyway that we have some industry leading QOL and it keeps getting perpetuated. As RonnyK said, as a body of work our CBA QOL provisions are about industry standard if not slightly behind. Sure we have some items better than other groups and many that are worse. It cannot be refuted that we are very far behind the industry in compensation and that shouldn’t be acceptable for a CBA that is essentially average elsewhere.

This QOL myth gets sold as a new hire then perpetuated so people can justify their low pay. And sure coming from a regional it sure seems amazing but if we are honest with ourselves and really take a long look at the industry at the major level the QOL argument is a smoke screen.