Originally Posted by
Reroute
Just out of curiousity, what was the standard of living that you expected when you got into this career in the first place. Which was your first major airline and what did they pay? Was it C2K? Was C2K industry leading or industry standard? In your experience negotiating contracts, when are economic goals announced? If UAL had announced there 2000 contract goals in 1998, would they have been less than what they announced after the Delta dot or more than? Just curious.
1) I expected to make six figures within 5 years
2) I expected my health care insurance cost to be zero
3) I expected to work weekends and holidays, but with that said, I had an expectation not to be molested at home on my days off without hiding behind (or paying for) extraneous telecommunication devices or services.
4) I expected some extra cash be put into my 401(k)
5) I expected a fully funded DB plan waiting for me at retirement
6) I expected that retirement to occur at age 60
7) I expected that the primary concern of the certificate holder, in whose employ I was in, to be the direct execution of air transportation, and not a shell corporation whose goal was to only act as a ticket clearing house.
8) I expected my union representation to represent the employment and employment conditions of my pilot group as it's primary concern, and not to feed the maw of another multi-million dollar corporation attempting to aid my employer with #6.
Now some of these conditions have been satisfied, and some have not, and some are in progress. I'll leave it up to the reader to figure out which is which. Any questions?
Nu