Originally Posted by
Excargodog
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?
I know I'm feeding the troll, but hopefully this will fill you up so you are no longer hungry.
As to "management loving and taking care of them", did F9 raise their first year pay outside section 6 out of "love and care"? Yes or no?
If a marriage between JB+NK happens, a joint CBA needs to be negotiated. If you want to know what JB management and JB pilots think about 1st year pay, look at JB's 1st year pay rate of ~$94 per hour, higher than Delta, United, AA and Southwest.
Hopefully that just about covers the fly-by's.