Originally Posted by
Lab Rat
Let me play devil's advocate for a moment. (and no, I am not in management)
Put yourself in the shoes of a manager running a regional airline. Realistically, we can surmise that there is no shortage of people willing to
take flying jobs for low pay, low benefits, and lousy QOL issues. With that being said, where is the incentive for management to
raise the bar when there is a surplus of people willing to
lower it even further?
I would say a natural product of capitalism is supply and demand.
This is exactly why there needs to be ONE union for ALL US airline pilots. What is the point of your airline's union fighting for fair wages and work rules when it ultimately makes the airline less competitve with a non-union carrier? (or worse, another carrier represented by the same national union with pilot wages and QOL markedly below the industry average!!) It's time for all of us to put an end to management and our own individual unions allowing us to undermine other pilot groups by accepting lower pay and work rules.
We need ONE national union representing all of us; one payscale based on seats/cargo capacity per airframe and one seniority list. Too many of us have put way to much time, money, and effort into our carrers to lose our jobs to others willing to work for less.
Rant over. Need a 6-er.