Originally Posted by
Phuz
Oh yes, complaining = bad. Flowers and sunshine all around. Labrador puppies are cute. Things are great. PLEASE! America was founded by people who COMPLAINED about taxation without representation, was it not? I feel a little, under-represented at the moment, somebody call me a waaaambulance.
Nope, our country was founded by people who did more than complain. They pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor (last line of the Declaration of Independence). They were men of action unlike the whining me generation that populates sectors of our profession.
Originally Posted by
Phuz
The RLA says our unions cant strike, but mgmt can walk all over us for YEARS before we MIGHT be allowed to do anything at all. "Its pure supply and demand" you say? Well how does a union having the ability to strike affect supply? How does that not affect our wages?
The RLA's effect on supply and demand is minimal compared to the FAA's ability to grant licenses. When all it takes to make a Part 121 pilot is 250 hours and a commercial (six months to a year in a puppy mill) there is a guaranteed unlimited supply of cheap labor to replenish the ranks of the startup subcontractors. That depresses all our wages. The new law might solve this if it is not watered down in the Senate.
Originally Posted by
Phuz
Go get another job, oh wait, whats that? Unemployment is like 20% right now? Damn.. Believe me, i've been looking and not just because of the wages.
Well things are tough all over. Just remember though, if you make over 50K a year you make more than half of all American families. So while hyperbole may be fine here on a web board, there are folks who are really surviving on rice and beans.