Originally Posted by
seafeye
That's business. Times get tough and management reduces labor to cut costs. Management has always spread work around to increase productivity. Business 101. Don't make it personal.
We have had some layoff's at head office as well. But i'm sure that there are others that are picking up the slack. The work still has to get done. T.K. isn't going to bring back the F/O's till mainline gives us back some more flying. Regardless of wether or not people are picking up SDO. If you think that SDO has any effect on bringing back the furloughes you are mistaken. The best way to bring them back is to have attrition at PSA. If people quit they need to be replaced. IMO.
Your argument was drawn, and quartered several pages ago, lest you forget.
SDO = Open Time. No need for the fancy scheduled day off acronym, it's open time. Go pickup some more open time. Whether you are a captain, with downgraded captains waiting to get back into their left seat, or an FO who just received a relatively large pay increase, picking up open time hurts the pilot groups position as a whole.
You can say it, open time, stop trying to rationalize it. Try to think for the future, instead of the measly gains you can make right now. As a pilot group we collectively need to work together, especially because of the contract negotiations coming up.
You're either with the good of the pilot group, or against it. Too much selfish behaviour, and we all fail. Your work rules, QOL, and pay is negotiated by a COLLECTIVE GROUP of pilots. It's NOT all about you, as much as you want to believe it is.
I fear the unions hand is being held back in fear of reprisal on the part of management crying foul, and illegal job action, similar to that which happened to United Pilots over the summer. We need unity, fly the contract, no open time, no answering for junior mans, and no going outside the contract THINKING you are HELPING.
Everything anyone does fly outside the contract means the company has enough SUCKERS who will do more, for less, and leave pilots out of work.
How many times, can all of this be said, in one thread, by so many?