Originally Posted by
Noisecanceller
The other thing for many of those newer to frontier that may not know who they are dealing with there.
Within the constraints of the RLA there are only two ways the frontier management we start negotiating in good faith.
1. a staffing problem which is what happened last time due to outside pilot market forces. They solved that problem with their cadet program so that pressure couldn’t be applied again.
2. a strike
Read some history on the Spirit strike in 2010 and gain some clarity on who this management group really is. You are the union. Don’t blame your reps and leadership for lack of progress at the table. Blame the process and the opponent exploiting the process.
They solved the staffing problem (temporarily) by paying for training hotels and allowing the company to raise first year pay (up to whatever percentage of second year pay) at their discretion. But now our Captain's get paid less than a mainline FO. Whoever voted yes on that POS needs to take a hard look in the mirror.. but they all are probably at United by now anyway. The only way I see us getting a contract is via a merger, a strike, or when the regionals exceed our rates. Meanwhile we will continue to be the type rating factory for other A320 operators. RLA needs to go. We aren't a GD railroad.