Originally Posted by
Cujo665
If unions can stop wage concessions, please explain why a widebody CA makes only 65% of the purchasing power they had in 1980? Please explain why regional pilots ended up on food stamps and public assistance after 20+ years of concessionary negotiating after deregulation? Oh, and if you look at wage charts alongside new hire experience level you’ll see that as they reduced pay, working conditions and benefits, they continually were forced to hire less and less qualified applicants. They drove people away from wanting to become pilots. They created their own pilot shortage.
point being, anybody thinking a union can prevent concessions over the long term hasn’t been paying attention. They pay what they have to to keep seats filled.
Reading this thread feels like (pre covid inflation) car dealerships where they added some made up Market adjustment price on top of the MSRP/Sticker price and then refused to even talk about Invoice or sticker price.
This sonic guy is not even in the ball park. He's started with an end result and continues to argue to that end, facts be damned.
Arguing with some folks is like wrestling with a pig in mud, eventually you realize that the pig just wants to get dirty.