Originally Posted by
Huck
Couldn't the same be said about you? Or any of us?
Ol' Kit Darby must have told you what you were going to make on that panel before you took the job. Why should we get you anything "special" either?
This, I reckon, is the evil rancid backwash we all get to taste after the Great Age Sixty debacle. Balkanization. "Why should we worry about _____(insert pilot sub-group here)?"
An example:
As far as 777 rates - the shadow bids they've run show that all the 777 pilots will be in the top 600 of our list, and the vast majority will be near or over 60. And we're going to go to the mattresses to get them more?
See how it works? "Why should we care about _____?"
My friends, we are royally screwed.
Unless some greatest-union-leader-in-a-generation rises up to fix this.
Left out a pretty important part of my post (was it that long?). The company thought they could open and operate FDAs on the cheap. The Union thought it was a good idea (as most thought it didn't effect me). Pilots bid it to take advantage of Jr manning.
Would kinda defeat the purpose of negotiations to let the company short change us one time, and let them fix it the next time by taking it from everyone else.