Originally Posted by
duvie
You went from looking down the barrel at bankrupcy to having your jobs secured virtually status quo for the next ten years and you're upset?
SkyWest is a long way from perfect but we've never had the "burn the house down" relationship with management. Most of us respect and understand their intent to run an efficient and profitable business while still paying their employees above average wages.
"Jobs secured virtually status quo?" Listen, you just don't get it. We are trying to help you guys understand. If there are 2 companies, or 3 or 4 or 5.... then none of them is secure, none is status quo ever. None has any security other than a belief in management's goodwill.
How has SkyWest determined what equates to "above average wages?" The average of hard fought union contract wages at other airlines maybe? SkyWest pilots are the Conscientious Objectors of airline labor. You have no problem with other pilots getting blood on their hands going off to war fighting, for years and years sometimes, over every last cent with their managements and then taking an average of those rates as "industry standard." God forbid if you ever had to go to the front lines and fight a battle for yourselves. Conscientious Objectors don't fight because they think if everyone were like them then there would be no war. SkyWest pilots must think every airline management should just agree to pay slightly above industry average wages and avoid all these silly contract battles that take forever. So basically, both Conscientious Objectors and SkyWest pilots LIVE IN A WORLD THAT DOES NOT EXIST.
As airlines consolidate, there are less and less companies and pilots wages from which to determine an "industry average." Sooner or later SkyWest pilots will realize they have to pick up a rifle (or a union pin) and come fight the war too.