AA717driver
A simpler time...
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- Mar 27, 2003
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The airlines don't care about "qualified and experienced". They just want someone who will work for the lowest pay and won't bitch about it.
It will take more unity than we have now to change the course. Witness the recent back and forth between the Delta and AWA pilots. The "my airline is better than your airline" mentality (read: road block to unity) still exits.
Apparently, management has found their new wedge to separate the groups--age 65. It hasn't even become a reality and the "haves v. have nots" battle is already raging. Our window of opportunity will be long gone before the pi$$ing over age 65 stops and we realize what happened--AGAIN! TC
P.S.--I guess I just answered the question I had about who was driving the age 65 thing. Only a handful of pilots are squabbling about it. Management was "apparently" sitting on the sidelines and Congress wasn't making it a BIG issue. Now, I understand why. Some major change happens without an obvious motivator and you can bet it's for the benefit of management.
So, when I make a comment about "frosted-tip, backpack-toting, i-pod-wearing greedy punks" and the aforementioned group fires back at us "depends-wearing, alzheimered, geriatrics" we're BOTH doing management's job for them.
It will take more unity than we have now to change the course. Witness the recent back and forth between the Delta and AWA pilots. The "my airline is better than your airline" mentality (read: road block to unity) still exits.
Apparently, management has found their new wedge to separate the groups--age 65. It hasn't even become a reality and the "haves v. have nots" battle is already raging. Our window of opportunity will be long gone before the pi$$ing over age 65 stops and we realize what happened--AGAIN! TC
P.S.--I guess I just answered the question I had about who was driving the age 65 thing. Only a handful of pilots are squabbling about it. Management was "apparently" sitting on the sidelines and Congress wasn't making it a BIG issue. Now, I understand why. Some major change happens without an obvious motivator and you can bet it's for the benefit of management.
So, when I make a comment about "frosted-tip, backpack-toting, i-pod-wearing greedy punks" and the aforementioned group fires back at us "depends-wearing, alzheimered, geriatrics" we're BOTH doing management's job for them.