Originally Posted by
xjcaptain
You must be using government style math. If an employee is making less money than is current book..it's a pay cut. Not only a 1 time cut, but a cut that will be there for every year after this point. I know everybody would like to make more, but that is solved by effective contract negotiations, not by taking it from a fellow pilot. Apparently people of have lost sight of the fact that an employer pays salaries, not other employees.
I have to admit, I do not have a dog in this fight. Being as Mesaba will be a 600 pilot airline in the future my career at Mesaba will be over after this summer and the changes that this LOA will bring will not effect me. If I do get to vote on this I will wait until the Union presents their position before I make up my mind as should everyone else.
Regarding your opinion about effective contract negotiations, could you define that please? Was it effective contract negotiations that brought about FO wages at Mesaba that are second to the bottom only above Mesa? Was it effective contract negotiations that bring about the largest gap between FO pay and CA pay in the industry? Wages at Mesa and Mesaba only exacerbate the race to the bottom. How do you think our industry leading bottom feeding FO wages help Pinnacle (our fellow pilots) in their fight? As I stated above, if I do get a vote in this before I am let go, I will consider what the Union has to say. However, your attitude comes off as being very combative and non productive. Are you even willing to consider the case the Union will present in the roadshows?