Originally Posted by
C2078
I love this deserve bullcrap. You only get what you negotiate. And even then companies wipe their rears with the agreements as we saw in the lost decade.
The pilot group deserves exactly what they have by allowing a leadership group to dangle some puny money in front of them and taking the bait, giving the company exactly what they wanted for very little and now under full control until the end of the decade. That was simply nuts. Had the pilot group remained steadfast and waited for full section 6 they would not be in this complete mess. The public campaign has obviously done very little to influence anything, the EB looks less credibly everyday. NJ is a good mid tier job, good benefits, decent retirement, etc, better than many aviation jobs. The pilots at NJ have zero control over his flying, just his work days (and then even limited), unlike the airlines. By changing the compensation to incentivize flying tired, hungry, carrying write ups, they screwed up royally.
Most of the current problems have been self inflicted, along with a string of company senior managers that have been greedy and evil. Not that he was a saint, but after Santuli left employee relations have gone to ****, exacerbated by the pilot group.
What a statement. Exactly what I have thought for years, and yet say it and the hornet nest starts buzzing in anger. I always felt that it was a better job at the $27,108 I started at than it has become with the current much higher scales. Problem is that every IBB has gotten more money at the cost of QOL going down the tubes, as well as management's treatment of its pilots there. And when the pilots tell their NC "we want ____ in the next contract" and their NC goes to their default answer of "what are you willing to give up?"....inexcusable. And those extended contracts for the bribe, er, signing bonus....well, we see what good that has done. They are in the best market ever and have zero leverage. Sad, but true. They work a far harder job and make well under what the industry dictates. I'd like to see them do better.
Like you said, Santulli wasn't an angel, but he shot straight and the company was his baby. The last 3 CEOs, just not the same.