Originally Posted by hockeypilot44

I could blow a month's pay in one night by going to a nice restaurant and following it with a concert or sporting event. Yep, a month's pay gets you one good date.

Originally Posted by 24601

any one see the email the republic sent to United and Us Air telling them not to hire any republic pilots. the union just sent it out via mass e-mail

Originally Posted by TillerEnvy

I don't think any interviewed. Kind of like going to an interview to work on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. The MSL and arbitration award was set aside by the company and hired off the street. Expect a mess to come out of it.

Toomanyrjs. You crack me up; all high and mighty in your heavy airbus!

Originally Posted by sqwkvfr

This is a nice comparison, but I'd like to add a little about Republic if I could:

Republic is like paying for, being promised, and expecting an Angus Deluxe while at the drive-though and then, when you're five miles down the road you find half a regular hamburger patty slapped between two pieces of wonder bread with no ketchup, mustard, or anything else on the burger.

When you go back to complain (provided that you take the time to do so...many do not), you find that the only way to air your complaint is via e-mail to a minimum wage half-wit fresh from his or her day at the alternative high school who responds by telling you that the deep-fat fryer was down. When you question the relevance of the fryer's status to your hamburger order, you get a tort, childish response chastising you for questioning this person's unhelpful response.

Eventually, you get a hold of a manager who tells you that there is no provision in your contract with "McPublic" that provides for you to actually get what you expected and that since "McPublic" has gotten away with this before, it is now "past practice" and therefore allowed.

If you complain to the authorities, they will tell you that normal law doesn't apply to your relationship with "McPublic" and that your only recourse it to solve it via our designated representative through a government agency that has all but checked out in an effort to punish the country for a perceived threat to it's existence and happens to be administered by a close ally and friend of "McPublic's" owner.

Eventually, you get used to eating crappy food because the other burger joints are either too far out of the way to justify the drive or are themselves adopting "McPublic's" business methods.

To top it off, you suddenly begin receiving e-mails heavily laced with religious references whining about how you didn't pay enough for your "burger" and that it is hurting "McPublic's" growth. God Bless.

In the end, you realize that you should have paid attention to the unhappy customers walking in front of the store with picket signs trying to tell you how awful "McPublic" is and to stay away....but you ignored them because the outside of the store looked so shiny and cool that you just had to eat there.

While you may think that this is a little far-fetched, EVERYONE who has had to deal with Republic's support departments (ah-HEM PAYROLL) or management knows exactly what I'm talking about.

No, all regionals are not alike.

Originally Posted by Snickers

***?!?

Anyone care to post it here?

Originally Posted by Goodspeed

Anyone interested can go to local357.org

It's on the min page, under No Confidence Vote

Click on view PDF, 3rd to last bullet point is about not being hired