Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
You will not have unity unless you fix scope. The top sold out the bottom (and themselves) for too long. If you want unity, you are going to have to compromise. Compass is a small group of 300 pilots.
Simply put, this would be the first time in my career I ever have lobbied against strike authorization and I will do so because my MEC has been unresponsive to popularly passed resolutions asking for economic analysis of policy change. We are on the wrong track with outsourcing and we need to stop it.
Consider that your pay as been cut hand in hand with outsourcing. The two ARE related. As we outsource more we have less power at the table. The result is the declining trend vector that you see, with lower highs and lower lows.
If you want to fix your problem, you start by fixing our problem.
Quite true, and most cannot see that this cray explosion of DCI since 2000 is what caused C2K to be but a dream. DALPA got that contract because DCI did not have the chance to grow before it was inked. Fact is that every pay cut has come with a increase in scoped airframes for third party operators.
These two issues are hand in hand. Pay raises with out the proper changes in section one are a straw man that will fall apart the first time a good wind blows.