JB Union
04-09-2007, 08:40 AM
#131
Line Holder
Joined APC: Mar 2007
Position: Southwest 737 FO
Posts: 93
I've read our contract. There are some VERY serious holes in it. I really like flying for JetBlue. But we are VERY exposed in some crucial areas. I guess it's fine if you can just bury your head in the sand, and pretend you have it great...that is until you are about to lose your livelihood...
Originally Posted by Gman
To all FDX and UPS guys:
Stop posting until you work for a real airline flying real people and trying to make a living at it. In case you have not noticed we are NOT competing with you. You fly dead things at night, enjoy your cash and shut up.
P.S. Ever read our 5 year contract? Enjoy the purple juice.
Stop posting until you work for a real airline flying real people and trying to make a living at it. In case you have not noticed we are NOT competing with you. You fly dead things at night, enjoy your cash and shut up.
P.S. Ever read our 5 year contract? Enjoy the purple juice.
04-09-2007, 08:45 AM
#132
Line Holder
Joined APC: Mar 2007
Position: Southwest 737 FO
Posts: 93
I do have to say that while I don't agree with your stance, I can understand a lot of it. I proudly wear my ALPA Battlestar on my JetBlue tie, and I'm on the ALPA organizing committee. To equate a JB pilot with a fu&^ing Scab is ludicrous...
Originally Posted by Velocipede
Let me address both your points.
1. As Union members, they should have known better than to accept employment at a non-Union carrier which AT THE TIME was paying well below legacy wages/benefits. They opportunisticly took advantage of their furlough to "jump ahead" in seniority, hoping B6 would be a survivor. They UNDERCUT EVERY UNION PILOT IN AMERICA!!! And they knew full well what they were doing when they were doing it. Then, they tried to justify it saying, "I had to feed my family." That's how scabs justify crossing picket lines.
2. The current pay scales for narrowbody Capts. at legacy carriers is a direct result of B6 pay scales. How can you not see that. B6 was going great guns, making money and was the darling of the industry, BASED ON LOWER LABOR COSTS AND SWEETHEART AIRBUS LEASES. Legacy managers used the Bankruptcy Code to dump their retirement obligations and gut Union pay scales. The early success of B6 was the impetus for the suffering UAL and USAir pilots experience today.
Extend 'professional courtesy' to these guys? I think not.
1. As Union members, they should have known better than to accept employment at a non-Union carrier which AT THE TIME was paying well below legacy wages/benefits. They opportunisticly took advantage of their furlough to "jump ahead" in seniority, hoping B6 would be a survivor. They UNDERCUT EVERY UNION PILOT IN AMERICA!!! And they knew full well what they were doing when they were doing it. Then, they tried to justify it saying, "I had to feed my family." That's how scabs justify crossing picket lines.
2. The current pay scales for narrowbody Capts. at legacy carriers is a direct result of B6 pay scales. How can you not see that. B6 was going great guns, making money and was the darling of the industry, BASED ON LOWER LABOR COSTS AND SWEETHEART AIRBUS LEASES. Legacy managers used the Bankruptcy Code to dump their retirement obligations and gut Union pay scales. The early success of B6 was the impetus for the suffering UAL and USAir pilots experience today.
Extend 'professional courtesy' to these guys? I think not.
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