Originally Posted by
Smalls
You are stepping in to do work that a fellow pilot attempted to strike for. You are indeed a scab. You may not have to cross a picket line to go to work, but you are in effect taking work from mainline pilots.
You are indeed lowering the bar for the industry as a whole. What happens next? Will the 737 and A319/320 become regional jets? I hope not, because those of you blind to the world at Republic will most likely fly them with pleasure and use the guise that your "only doing your job" to justify taking a sub par wage to fly what should be a mainline jet.
When does this stop? When the majors are dead, and $96,000 a year is the apex of the pay scale? I as a pilot watching this industry die a very slow death - hope to God not.
No I'm not a SCAB. Maybe you should read some of my prior posts on this topic. Midwest Pilots didn't strike. I wish they would. And I'm not "stepping in to do work". I was already a pilot at this company when they decided to enter this agreement with Midwest. If I don't do my job, I will be "stepping into the unemployment line".