Originally Posted by
satchip
So quit and go get a real job. Stop expecting anyone to do squat for you and get off your butt and do it for yourself. If you are eating rice and beans then become something else. Quit yer you know whating.
The RLA is there for one reason and that is to keep the trains and planes running on time. It was enacted in the wake of a railway strike 1921. It has nothing to do with your wages. You make crap because you can be replaced in six months by some wet behind the ears puppy mill grad with 250 hours and a commercial ticket. It's pure supply and demand. The seniority system doesn't help either. Makes our skills not portable. But you and I entered this field knowing that. So if you don't make enough to support yourself in the lifestyle in which you have become accustomed, then get the heck out.
Satchip,
Couldn't agree more about the comaplaining. We all should have done our due dilagence when we got into this industry. Most of us knew that once you get to a major, you hope they stick around forever because you are stuck with them.
See my previous post about the "portability" of our skills. As you say, they are not.
Also see my previous post about the impact of the RLA. It did have a
stated intended purpose. But it also has had other ramifications. I can gaurantee you that the RLA wasn't put into place for "labors" benefit. As you state, it was put into place after a strike... and that hurts the companies, not labor (directly).