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I’ve always found the argument of “we fly the same plane, we should get paid the same” an interesting argument. Is there another occupation where people who have the same job, different companies, get paid the exact same based on the job itself? Is there anywhere this happens? Because this would be anti free market and ore along the lines of socialism. You know, the thing that many on the forums are against as we MAGA 🙄.
You guys get what you can using the leverage you believe your group holds. The idea “Delta makes” or “Speedy Cab makes,” so we should make, is a weak one. Just as if Delta filed bankruptcy tomorrow and took massive pay cuts, you wouldn’t take the same cuts. Doesn’t work that way.
What ores along the lines of socialism (ie centralization) more than the NMB? The need for reduced compensation is real when it is necessary for the survival of the corporate entity. But the idea that this model can require margins that exceed twice that of the traditional and yet have employees paid discount wages is a narrative that has been pushed for only a few short years but apparently sufficently well as you have bought off on it. It’s the same job, with the same obligations, the same liability( in fact we have slightly more when comparing airframes) as anybody else yet right now we make half as the investors make in some examples earn 3 times an average return as the rest of the industry. The only reason this situation exists is because the bureaucrats of an administrative agency have reinterpreted the RLA as having granted them unrestricted control of all leverage in labor negotiations and they believe the same narrative on your worth as you do. Originally Posted by Ducttape
Your illustration is called “life and reality”. Do you take it? Well people take jobs every day that might pay less than a competitor pays, that’s reality. What happens when that “driver” in your story tells his boss he isn’t taking the money and scheduling software? He gets fired. That’s life and reality. I’ve always found the argument of “we fly the same plane, we should get paid the same” an interesting argument. Is there another occupation where people who have the same job, different companies, get paid the exact same based on the job itself? Is there anywhere this happens? Because this would be anti free market and ore along the lines of socialism. You know, the thing that many on the forums are against as we MAGA 🙄.
You guys get what you can using the leverage you believe your group holds. The idea “Delta makes” or “Speedy Cab makes,” so we should make, is a weak one. Just as if Delta filed bankruptcy tomorrow and took massive pay cuts, you wouldn’t take the same cuts. Doesn’t work that way.
From Wikipedia:
Regulatory capture is a form of government failure which occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.[1] When regulatory capture occurs, the interests of firms or political groups are prioritized over the interests of the public, leading to a net loss for society. Government agencies suffering regulatory capture are called "captured agencies".
In this environment with the option to stike what would we have obtained and would it have been sustainable? That would be a free market. I’ve come to view unions as the perfect counter power to corporate greed. If the union takes to much investors won’t see the adequate return relative to the risk and the company won’t grow ,or if the union took way to much the business wouldn’t be competitive and the union members loose their jobs. The union has real skin in the game, bureaucrats not to much. Anyway, our product (which costs less) provides less overall value to a customer, not the pilot. Delta pilots don’t do their job any different than we do. Don’t sell yourself short. The NMB and management is doing enough of that for you.