Dont care if its temporary, i would like to have kept my job for at least a few more months

 

So how long until ALPA grieves the side letter violation with 7 planes being awarded to Pinnacle? Comair gets 30% of unawarded (as of March 2007) jet aircraft, and Delta put it in writing.

As this is a new award, Comair should be getting 3 of them.

Shame on our MEC and shame on the Vage if they just roll over on this one.

 

I don't see this as "new" flying.

 

I guess we need to define the term new eh?

 

Main Entry:1new Pronunciation: \ˈnü, chiefly British ˈnyü, in place names usually (ˌ)nu̇ or nə or (ˌ)ni\ Function:adjective Etymology:Middle English, from Old English nīwe; akin to Old High German niuwi new, Latin novus, Greek neosDate:before 12th century 1: having recently come into existence : recent , modern2 a

(1): having been seen, used, or known for a short time : novel <rice was a new crop for the area> (2): unfamiliar <visit new places> b: being other than the former or old <a steady flow of new money>3: having been in a relationship or condition but a short time <new to the job> <a new wife>4 a: beginning as the resumption or repetition of a previous act or thing <a new day> <the new edition> b: made or become fresh <awoke a new person> c: relating to or being a new moon5: different from one of the same category that has existed previously <new realism>6: of dissimilar origin and usually of superior quality <a new strain of hybrid corn>

 

K, well, two (2) things, or maybe three.

1. I am scheduled to be furloughed Nov 5. I called an union rep this evening and he did not say we needed to email this information to the union to receive our money. He said they were working with the company to figure this out.

2. I would almost be willing to take their piddly check (if it is decided that the company was in the wrong by doing this) and stick it back up where the sun don't shine because it does not give me a warm fuzzy knowing the company is not sending me this money in good faith. They would only be doing so as a result of being forced. Like we were supposed to laugh this one off or something. Hahaha, well I have my money now so it's okay... Bu**sh*t.

3. Why would I have to email the union with an amount so I could receive a check from the company?? Does the company not know how much they owe me? Do they get their payroll information each month from ALPA. NO!!

I am terribly heart broken right now. As I stated to the ALPA rep, it's not the money, (not that I don't have bills or anything) but it's the principle. As a young boy gazing through the airport fence I expected to, as an airline pilot, be an upstanding respected individual within my establishment as well as in society. I am the furthest from that I have ever been in my life. I don't care about recalls, or half of a CR9 we might be getting in March, I demand respect. We are the frontline of the industry. We thank the passengers as the get off the airplane after we just got them safely to Buffalo in the driving snow. Yet we continue to tolerate BS from our companies.

Regarding the furloughs, that's part of the industry. I am not beat up over it. It's just one of those things we all expect in this industry. I am more upset regarding the lack of communication and the dis-respect we receive from our employer.

If they do decide to send us our checks, it is not until some pilots who choose to rub their peckers with management, thanking them for sending us our checks, forgiving them of their cold heartedness and bla bla bla STOP, we will NEVER get that respect and will continue to be reamed, DRY. OUCH

 

I understand what your are saying 100%... The rep that i talked to was Mr. Herman. He was the one in the meeting today and that was what he told me to do. I am just as upset about all this as you, i was told to send all that information so that he could keep record. It is worth giving him a call as he was the rep in the meeting today.

 

First let me apologize to you if it seemed as if I was bashing your post. My rant had nothing to do with you personally and I am sure that was the information you were told. My problem is that was the information you were told. I was bashing the information rather than you or your post. It sounds about as promising as the half CR9 we are supposed to receive in 2010. But leave it to us pilots to get all excited about that one!!! Maybe because of that reason they won't furlough.

Anyway, whether it be from ALPA or Comair, it seems as if we are being strung along with a bunch of false information. It's just plain stupid.

As I put it to a fella I was flying with the other day. I feel as if I am in Vegas, plugging in quarters and cranking a handle. It's like this, the machine gives us enough back to keep going for a while, enough to keep plugging, but never enough to win. BUT, ya never know, that next pull might result in a jackpot so instead of getting up we keep going, afraid that the next guy that sits down here might spend a quarter and win a million. That's the mindset the company wants us to have and we have all fell victim to it.

 

Time to unite and strike, shut down that place!! They have screwed with Comair brotherens one too many times!!!

 

or not... either way comair is F@#ked!! After all the management turned it into another ****ty regional.
Time for some of those old comair geezers to retire and make room for the young guys!