Originally Posted by
Avroman
There are 2 big keys to that... 1 Get rid of the horribly antiquated "railway labour act" and
2 Have the unions remove head from arse.
God forbid newhires have it better than some crusty old SOB that couldn't/wouldn't move on 15 years ago and now thanks to age 65 rule won't retire for another 3-5 years.
just because they didn't get that so now nobody else should either.... My response is "you should have bothered to save your own money for retirement". Don't rely on someone else (pensions, social security) to foot your retirement. Go stand at the door at walmart like the rest of the uneducated unprepared old farts.
There's a larger issue, and that's preventing the company from arbitrarily handing out bonuses to certain groups of employees. How would you feel if your company handed out a bonus check to all the turboprop FOs because their job is much harder than that of any other pilot?
It's really the same for newhires. I don't have a problem with increasing first year pay, but I want it to be in the contract. If we allowed them to pay bonuses, they would only pay the bonus when they need pilots bad, and not when they are hiring just for attrition.