Originally Posted by
CASmaster
That's an extremely silly question, fishy fish. Of course it does. Despite that fact, had VX not been hiring when I was offered employment, I would have been without a job and struggling to put a roof over my head and food in my mouth. what would you have done?
C.S.
In Fishfreighter Land all you have to do is call ALPA and they will make it all better for you.
Fish lives in a fantasy land where large amounts of unemployed pilots is a good thing. He cannot understand basic supply and demand, thinking more pilots applying for fewer jobs drives wages up.
Fish also has very limited brain capacity, unable to deal with the size and scope of the reasons for the industry being where it is. He can only see one bankruptcy case that happened several years before Virgin America started flying, that cited one airline, and he applies that to the entire industry. I don't know why he cannot see beyond that, maybe he likes living in the bliss of ignorance. He also fails to see that the airline in question in his court case, Jet Blue, has had several pay raises since that court case despite being non-union. He cannot grasp the fact that raises have occurred which have placed Jet Blue at or near the top of pay for A320 operators without union intervention.
He also fails to comprehend the fact that the existence of the very same union he adores, has kept the wages very low at several airlines that went through bankruptcy. Because of the ALPA contract, management does not have to address any pay raises, they can simply hide behind the contract and tell the pilots to pound sand. Any noise the pilots make is met with charges of illegal job activity and court orders for the pilots to stop. Management can drag their feet for five plus years of lower pay during contract negotiations.