Originally Posted by
1900luxuryliner
Incentives: Higher quality employees (less risk of an accident), fewer bogus sick calls, less turnover and attrition, higher productivity, lower training costs, including retraining pilots who don't care about the quality of the work they do, as well as training new pilots, due to attrition, etc.
By the way, a natural product of capitalism is supply and demand. But, just because I don't want to be a victim of that fact, doesn't make me a communist, or socialist, or whatever right-wing slanted propaganda word is being recklessly and incorrectly thrown around by Fox News these days.
Incentives: Higher quality employees (less risk of an accident), fewer bogus sick calls, less turnover and attrition, higher productivity, lower training costs, including retraining pilots who don't care about the quality of the work they do, as well as training new pilots, due to attrition, etc.
This is just my opinion, but I don't believe any of the above is directly related to whether one is union or not. For example, bogus sick calls are more of an integrity issue than anything else.
By the way, a natural product of capitalism is supply and demand. But, just because I don't want to be a victim of that fact, doesn't make me a communist, or socialist,
I don't think anyone is accusing you of being a communist or a socialist, at least I am not. Those are more political than labor oriented anyways.
However, may I humbly suggest that you may be
allowing yourself to be a victim rather than capitalism forcing you to be one? I'll give you an example.
Several years ago, prior to hiring on at a major, I accepted a job at a non-union carrier rather than going to a unionized regional carrier because of supply and demand. The most a unionized regional could offer me at the time was $14,000.00 per year with an upgrade in the neighborhood of 2 to 3 years.
The job I accepted paid more than double that as an f/o and allowed me to upgrade in the jet in less than a year. The schedule was not anything to brag about and neither were the benefits, but I knew that when I signed up for the job and accepted it as it was. I also knew that the positives (pay and upgrade) outweighed the negatives (schedule and days off). I was afforded the opportunity to choose and ultimately accept that job thanks to supply and demand. Supply and demand is a pendulum - sometimes we're the windshield and sometimes we're the bug.
or whatever right-wing slanted propaganda word is being recklessly and incorrectly thrown around by Fox News these days.
Oh quit being a popinjay.
