Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
In this environment, MANAGEMENT needs 1st year pay to increase. They may bluff and say you need to negotiate for 1st year pay increases, but in this environment MANAGEMENT needs it. Don't waste negotiating capital on it as they won't have any choice but to ultimately include a competitive 1st year pay in their "last, best offer".
Not talking about WASTING CAPITAL. You don’t WASTE CAPITAL when you use it to build pilot group unity. I’m talking about hard negotiating FOR EVERY SINGLE PILOT IN THE GROUP, not selling out anybody on any specious theory that management is going to love them and take care of them.
How would you like it if the FOs all voted, screw CA raises, they have enough, let’s give it all to FOs because they need it worse? Yeah, yeah, I know, the FOs will someday BE CAs (if they don’t lose their medical and if a recession doesn’t cause them to be furloughed or stuck as an FO for ten years or if they don’t get sufficiently PO’d to say ‘screw this, I’m putting in apps elsewhere’) but that doesn’t help them and their families today.
We have indeed met the enemy and he is us when management doesn’t have to divide and conquer us because senior pilots contemptuous of the welfare of our junior pilots do it for us. Seriously, have you no empathy? Or at a minimum, have you no shame?