Originally Posted by
zerozero
This is not the same thing. Everyone would be well advised to tamp down their jingoistic fear mongering and concentrate on keeping the company managers and executives honest.
This is exactly what we're talking about here. No longer are there a few Aussies around who sought Atlas out because it suited their lifestyle. Management is now actively recruiting from overseas to avoid having to up compensation to hire domestically.
Just because it was worse before doesn't make what they're doing now OK. What percentage of the seniority list can foreign workers make up before its a problem? Would you be OK with 10%? 20%? 90%? By your reasoning, we could have a seniority list consisting of 100% foreign outsourced pilots as long as they are not hired under different compensation agreements.
Regarding QF/FedEx; If they have problems with subcontracting to us, then those are their problems and they should address them. Let's not forget that we routinely subcontract flying to Kalitta, Western Global etc etc. As far as I know, QF isn't hiring American's and FedEx isn't sponsoring visas.