Originally Posted by
satchip
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! So it is ok to force your UNION BROTHERS to the street for years so you can "restore the profession" to what was? GMAFB. That seems typical of the DPA crowd. Be a man, take the furlough. We all did it.
All us junior guys have make sure we don't rock the boat so DAL88 doesn't have to give up his Lexus and his beach home. Screw the rest of us who will be living on unemployment checks.
The difference is clear. What I am advocating is market based increases in our contract value, starting with rules and scope to ensure the maximum amount of people in our union. What you care about is your wallet and you don't give a hoot how many people below you are cut so you can make your $350 per hour.
Life ain't Windows. You don't get to hit the "Restore" button. Look forward, guys.
And as for retirement, you had that opportunity. Besides, what you makes dwarfs what I make combined.
Satch, you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. Lexus and a beach home? On what I make? Yeah, right. I have less buying power than a narrowbody First Officer had 10 years ago! I drive a Hyundai Sonata and live in a 2500 square foot house in Arkansas. But go right ahead arguing against restoring our compensation. Keep stabbing your fellow pilots in the back and spreading the kind of misconceptions that our management likes to spread whenever negotiations are active. Maybe you'll have a management job waiting for you if you get that furlough you think you're going to get.
I've said it several times and I'll say it again. I don't think there is any way that significantly restoring our pay will result in anyone being furloughed. I don't want anyone to be furloughed, including you. But for you to want the entire profession to be devalued by HALF its historical value... to avoid what you perceive as having the potential to cause you to get furloughed... is about as selfish as it gets.
And what opportunity for retirement did I already have? I am not now nor have I ever been in a position to be able to even think about retiring. Again, you just have no clue what you're talking about.