Slap, I'm not "one of the usual suspects." I dig working at SkyWest, and I wasn't looking to make (Air Canada) Jazz wages, but these are our scheduled pay negotiations. This wasn't some benevolent act, the next time we get a raise will be if we vote down a union or the next scheduled pay negotiations, which are two or three years down the road.

My view is that 1% is hardly worth even offering. If management accompanied this with an email explaining their desire to stay competitive, that they'd like to pay more but it isn't a good time or whatever, basically anything besides just throw a few scraps our way and saying "be grateful" I'd be more empathetic to the cause. Perhaps that's Chip's role on the upcoming roadshow, but I personally find SAPA to be failing. Regoinal FOs are the most underpaid in the entire industry and over 1000 of us just got offered 1% raises while the Captains got between 1.5% and 4.5% by our own representatives. How do you think SAPA is serving your interests by doing this?! I've always given them the benefit of the doubt, but this is very frustrating to me, I feel as if we're getting all the draw backs of misaligned interests a union brings without any protection they provide.