Originally Posted by
TBucket
Actually, you are completely wrong. It would be capitalism if it were unrestricted. Thanks to the RLA, it's about as far from "what they're worth" as one can get. When you have no leverage to negotiate, you get basically what management wants to pay you. Obviously, this is not what you're "worth". This is what they want to give you. Repeal the RLA and then let's see what pilots are "worth". Negotiations would change drastically if you could go on strike the day your contract expires, rather than maybe 4-5 YEARS later. (If the government decides to let you)
Actually I am competely right...who says you have to go to the airlines??? Why not avoid that whole game and go fly 135 where pay is better? You empower them by working for them. If everyone who stop playing the game of run to an airline as fast as you can they would eventually be forced to raise pay...but there are enough morons...who run off to fly "THE JET!" ...that the airlines have a surplus. And the FAA doesnt want to regulate the standards for a 121 FO...so this is what you get.