We all agree we are horribly underpaid. I know this personally as I work at Commutair. Our pay scale is a laughable. Do we really want the government involved in setting salaries? Sometimes it is necessary to look beyond our own issues and at the big picture. What direction is America heading? Do we want to move down the road toward such a huge federal government that it literally sets our salaries? Should there be a federally sanctioned minimum wage for every profession?

Something has to be down about pay and working conditions in our industry but i'm not sure having the government setting pay rates is the way to go. Perhaps updating or scraping the RLA might be a good start. Let us get paid for the actual time we work.