Originally Posted by
cal73
Last year they continued hiring FAs as we scrambled to avoid sending "500" pilots to the street. We ended up tossing 147 pilots to the curb. Now here we are a year later and when this whole new furlough thing started to unfold it was made clear early on that "NO flight attendant furloughs" were going to occur. Now we have a system bid that chops EWR 737 and sends a majority of the leftovers to IAH. And what of the EWR FA's? Nothing.
This reaks of Status Quo violation.
Boneman, Have you personally actually inquired about that to Pierce?
Did you REALLY think they were ever going to furlough FAs?? The lowest ones on the chopping block were those hired as Mandarin speakers for Shanghai. So what do you want to bet the number of actual COLAs for FAs is WELL south of the 600-700 they said they needed to avoid furloughs? Somehow "the numbers" were made to work with however many actually applied. I have a few FA friends who stated they were going to start counting up the COLAs to find out how many were taken since all they heard from the company was they "had enough" so as not to have to furlough any FAs.
And why is it the company throws us 18- and 19- month COLAs but the FAs get 4-, 5- and 9-month options?