Originally Posted by
captnate702
Or i'm not a worshipper of the union or the company - just a pilot who'd like to have the option of picking up and making some extra $$$. i'm nowhere near senior enough to get VFNs so being able to pick up OT at a premium would have been nice. same with making some extra on the premium pay.
but go ahead keyboard ninja and label me management because i don't only drink the kool-aid.
have you spoken to anyone at the union about negotiations and if we are close to a deal? try it, really grill them on it and they'll tell you that we are no where close to a contract. the union is intentionally dragging their feet on putting out their compensation proposals to wait and see what United's is. why does that matter, because it shows that if you have a brain you'd realize that we are a long way from a contract and a raise. given we are years away, i'd like the opportunity to make some extra cash.
You’re right in that the Union has its many many faults. That being said, if this was accepted it would had been a giant slap in the face to the jr side of the pilot group.
As a junior guy you do not have nearly the opportunity to make money on days off for many reasons. If you are on reserve you have 10 days off in July. Most sequences starting in the AM and ending in the PM. Good luck getting 30hrs of rest to pick anything up on a day off.
If you are a jr line holder you work 18-20 days primarily on the high fly days (in which all the open time lies) with Tuesdays off and no OT to be had. I don’t even want to begin to guess how you would be paid as a composite guy with ADD days… So yes this scheme greatly favors those who are able to pick up days when the company needs them. Aka guys with weekends off and 16 plus days off. While the rest of the pilot group is flying inefficient trips with their days off being on days when there is very very little OT.
Not accepting this offer galvanizes our pilot group rather than further divide the already large schism between jr and sr