Originally Posted by
scambo1
Satch;
Pretty broad brush on the senior pilots. I dont quite get that.
Most pilots that are senior (or older) just want the opportunity to feather their retirement bed at this point. If you were not around for the post 911 blood letting, I cannot put you into those shoes. If you are super junior, I doubt that there is any pilot, from super senior to mid seniority, that wants anything but for you to move up the food chain.
The blood letting was extreme and we have continued and propogated that draconian bankruptcy contract for 4 more years. You came afterward. You didn't personally experience it. The senior pilots, who you seem to have significant disdain for, did. Some are horses butts, but all FDALs lost their retirement with a very limited window to try to build one. You hired on during a bankruptcy contract and low payrates, they probably didn't.
Although you do get a vote equal to theirs, maybe rather than think how you can cancel them out of a raise, you should unite with them to try to regain what this job used to be.
Just think about it.
You're right, Scambo, sort of. It was a broad brush but I have flow with so many senior NYC ER A's who flat out said they don't care what happens to this company the day after they retire. They want to squeeze every drop out for the next X number of years to make up for their lost DB. They would gladly trade my job for their pay. Came right out and said it.
Say what you want about LM, but I firmly believe that I kept a job through the recession due to his multi layered scope and contract strategy. Had someone else been in charge, someone who believed in the old paradigm, I don't think we would have been in front of this merger nor would we have gotten the improvements and the equity.
That is why I am so firmly against this DPA crowd. Hidden motivations, hidden agendas, old style hard line union demands without concern for the most vulnerable of us. Just keep remembering Carl's words. Take the furlough, suck it up. Not very unifying.