Originally Posted by
⌐ AV8OR WANNABE
Well, it depends on how you look at things but right after 9/11 the Airtran union agreed to a temporary pay freeze (not pay cut!); I think they’d just signed a new contract and were getting yearly pay increases at the time (sort of like we are right now) so basically they put those pay increases on hold for a year I believe. I cannot remember the exact time frame but when the agreement was penciled in it actually specified when their pay would go back to normal.
They did not furlough one single person after 9/11.
I’m not saying that’s what we should have because we are making money and therefore it’s not even an option.
However, me personally I would be willing to do whatever takes to make sure we NEVER furlough one single pilot. EVER!
I’m saying it today as a junior pilot and I promise you I’ll feel the same way as a senior captain.
To me a union is an association that protects and fights for ALL its members, not just the senior ones and lets the junior members take the full brunt of the slowdown/recession/lay offs, etc.