Originally Posted by
NoHaz
Pretty short sighted mindset, you"ll be "an old senior guy" someday if you are lucky. TA 1 wasn't perfect but there wasn't some radical Qol degradations traded for the A plan increase. In fact there were some small QOL gains. For example, the eliminating of spontaneous standbys was a big win for reserve sitters. The student line changes were a give back but it doesn"t impact a huge group. The pay rates were on the low side but that was only after the majors had huge increases announced as we were in the waiting to vote period. Bottom line is there was something for everyone and our #1 polled priority to the NC, retirement improvement, was accomplished. Rather than burn the house down and begin a multi-year search for new priorites I would think some focused improvements (legacy equivalent payrates, near full back pay, some scope agreements that capture the management emails of intent, and some improvement to the A fund transition) would be sufficient and ratifiable in the short term.
TA1 was absoutle horsesheet. Do you realize how bad a TA has to be for people to vote down their own pay raises? There's a reason why QOL here has contined to go downhill here for the last 20 + years. People with your mindset that think you have to trade QOL concessions for industry standard(less than industry standard in TA1) pay rates and retirement. Its ridiculous and infuriating.
And you're right, we will be the old guys and the senior ones someday, and I won't be voting for or advocating for a TA that has junior pilots take QOL concessions and dogsheet pay rates to subsizide my retirement bump as I'm heading out the door.