Originally Posted by
max8222
Fighting for your future? More like following a lemming off the cliff. TC suckered all of you into thinking he was the great savior. You read the lastest NC comms? Did sound so Braveheart inspiring charging up the hill for a big win. Company already knows we are a bunch of simps, they follow JF and APC.
Go ahead a wait for some number you dream about, by the time you get it the majors will already be a contract ahead and ahead on money again. Every day we fall further behind. Hard concept for you to grasp.
Raj and his NC realize how great a position they are in. a Union led by nonstop polls that have wishes for pink ponnies and rainbow skittles. Meanwhile they are saving millions a month.
JG did not sound so confident on some big scope win. More like we will be lucky to keep what we have.
The fix to not being behind on the money is with what UAL and AA did, a snap up clause. As for scope, unfortunately, we are so far behind on that (way farther than we are on pay rates), itll be difficult to make it up all in this negotiating cycle. In order to get either of these things though, will depend on a vast majority of us stopping this incessant complaiing about TC, the past MEC, delays, polling, etc, and instead getting behind the cause as one going forward, even if its as a 'silent majority'. Our biggest enemy is not management (they are simply doing their job), its our disunity.
Originally Posted by
Tuck
Ths is the classic post and indicative of how our junior folks feel. "the laughing stock of the industry" - why do you care what others think about you? Honestly - if there's a problem then point it out - this shouldn't be a big d**k competition but for a certain demographic it absolutely is. This is why we are screwed.
I don't think its because we care what others think but rather to make the point to others who don't feel the same way as us that its not just us. At some point, when everyone else knows something you don't beleive, you must realize that maybe you are the one that doesn't actuyally know.
Pointing it out is like trying to break the stockholm syndrome. But maybe the laughing stock phrase is a bad tactic? What do you suggest?