Originally Posted by
satchip
Seriously, what would you have them do? First of all, I don't think that the company is missing anything. Every other employee group has voted down union representation. I think that is a pretty good indicator of job satisfaction and good relations. We have a contract that provides for raises and increases in DC until the amenable date. RA knows he is going to have to open the checkbook in a couple of years, but why in the world would he(the board, management, whomever you want to include) do that before then?
Like Bar said, DALPA has secured mid contract improvements whenever they had the chance. There is no legal mechanism to do otherwise. Besides, without a complete polling of the membership, the union cannot go after a major change like that and pretend to represent everybody. Personally, I think the pay is fine. I'm more worried about job security, ie scope.
I would have them make a good faith effort to make things right. I don't expect them to voluntarily restore C2K. But it would be appropriate in my opinion for them to come to us and offer to partially restore our pay. It was taken from us (okay we gave it up with a proverbial gun to our heads) in BK as an emergency measure to supposedly save the company from liquidating. It's absolutely wrong that we continue to have the same buying power several years after exiting BK and especially during a time when the company is making record profits. I've already posted enough about the management and leadership qualities that most experts advocate. And hopefully you saw the Tom Peters video using SWA and AA pilots an example to illustrate a very important concept. I guess the thing to ask is WWHD? (What Would Herb Do?)
As for your comment about pay being "fine." Well, in my experience, you sir are on the radical, lunatic, fringe with that opinion. Many of us are counting on this career. We've put years of hard work and sacrifice into this and don't have anything else to fall back on. The level of compensation at this point in time is nowhere near appropriate, given what we do and what we had to do to achieve success and reach this level. I just cannot believe you do not understand that, but you're entitled to your opinion. Just don't expect to find many people who agree with you.