SKYW Pilots planning walkout?
01-23-2007 | 05:15 PM
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SKYW Pilots planning walkout?
Some of my friends at SKYW said that they have organized a 1-2 day (Call-in-Sick Stoppage of Work) to coincide with SKYW's earnings conference on February 7th. Apparently, it is in protest to their wages. (???)
I don't know how true this is, so I was curious if anyone else heard of anything. However, if it is true, that could sort of be embarrassing for SKYW Management, especially during an earnings conference and after Midwest Airlines selected them to fly 15-25 planes.
I don't know how true this is, so I was curious if anyone else heard of anything. However, if it is true, that could sort of be embarrassing for SKYW Management, especially during an earnings conference and after Midwest Airlines selected them to fly 15-25 planes.
01-23-2007 | 06:27 PM
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Some of my friends at SKYW said that they have organized a 1-2 day (Call-in-Sick Stoppage of Work) to coincide with SKYW's earnings conference on February 7th. Apparently, it is in protest to their wages. (???)
I don't know how true this is, so I was curious if anyone else heard of anything. However, if it is true, that could sort of be embarrassing for SKYW Management, especially during an earnings conference and after Midwest Airlines selected them to fly 15-25 planes.
I don't know how true this is, so I was curious if anyone else heard of anything. However, if it is true, that could sort of be embarrassing for SKYW Management, especially during an earnings conference and after Midwest Airlines selected them to fly 15-25 planes.
01-23-2007 | 07:22 PM
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Good for them, most of the pilots for Skywest work in some of the most expensive places to live in the US, they should get paid more, it might start a movement in other airlines too, which would be good for all.
01-23-2007 | 07:28 PM
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I doubt it will happen. First off, we haven't the slightest semblance of unity among our pilot group. We definitely showed the world this when we voted yes to that S*#T pay package not long ago. Also, it's not a big secret that employment can be terminated by management for pretty much whatever reason they want. I know of at least one active case that is in court as we speak (pilot had to hire his own legal help to get his job back), among many others in the past. Until we get some real form of unity here, I doubt anything like this would ever happen.
01-23-2007 | 08:11 PM
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I doubt it will happen. First off, we haven't the slightest semblance of unity among our pilot group. We definitely showed the world this when we voted yes to that S*#T pay package not long ago. Also, it's not a big secret that employment can be terminated by management for pretty much whatever reason they want. I know of at least one active case that is in court as we speak (pilot had to hire his own legal help to get his job back), among many others in the past. Until we get some real form of unity here, I doubt anything like this would ever happen.
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