FlyJSH

(Warning: Sarcasm Follows)

Dear Colgan Pilots,

Unions don't care about you. Only we, your management, truly care about you. Just look at some of the things we have done in the last few months to help you:

We took away your run ups -- all those pesky 15 minute credits were so confusing

We changed the hot reserve rules -- we know you just love sitting for 4:44 hours without pay

We have improved the schedules -- no more unequal lines: everybody gets a hodge podge of day trips, stand ups, early trips, late trips, and a couple days of reserve. Three and four day trips have been improved by having at least one day with not more than two legs. We, your management friends, understand that time you spend off duty, you could be getting into trouble (idle hands are the Devil's playground). So, by keeping you at work, with disorganized sleep schedules, you won't have the chance to go astray.

We have regularly paid you less than you earn by miscalculating over guarantee checks -- as one manager put it we "think we have paid you enough"

And why have work rules set by a "contract"? It is so much easier to just wait until we issue a new memo telling you how we have simplified your life. Future memos will be issued with a complimentary jar of Vaseline for your added comfort.

Respectfully,
Annie Moose