Originally Posted by
tpersuit
I like how you don't include the flying you do. I got a better one for you: All flying under a mainline's name should be flown by mainline pilots.
No matter how you spin it. XJT pilots were replaced at EWR with pilots who make 80% of our wages to fly 48% more seats. That is shameful.
I don't fly the Q and I did vote for the union. I'm sorry for you and yours that Continental awarded the EWR flying to Colgan under the PCL banner. I have friends at XJT as well. We had no union to negotiate the Q payrates, and a lot of the guys who didn't vote (no voters) thought Colgan was going to stay as this nice family run operation. I'm hoping this next drive will pass, but apathy abounds everywhere. As DME said, its easier walking into a job with a union than it is trying to organize and establish one from scratch at a place that has never had one.