Yeah, unions always save the day.....lol.
Lets forget the fact we are in the worst recession our country has ever seen and while the union fractionals are treading water, CA is coming back WITHOUT a union. We stay at the Hilton, Marriott, ect. when we overnight. We fly very well maintained aircraft. Citation Air has NEVER fired anyone that didn't deserve it, ect., ect., ect..
The list can go on and on. We do not work that hard, we fly to the best places in the world with the nicest owners in the world in some of the nicest airplanes. Listening to a pro union whiner yap all day because we had to get up before 5 am and fly 2 legs from a cold weather state to a warm weather state (Los Angeles, Ca) and be done by 12 noon was just one more reason for me to hate everything a union brings to a company and it's employees.....entitlement mentality.
Or the poor lying sob stories about "Hey did you hear Joe got fired for this or that...bull******************** huh? We need a union to prevent that from happening again"; only to find out when you investigate the story yourself it was all BS. Yeah, union tactics....lol. "Get those cards in and lets stick it to management", blah, blah, blah!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You hear it all and can easily identify them after a day of flying with them. I used to look forward to the lies of one such pilot I seemed to fly with a lot. I would write his crap down at night and do some research and find the truth. Then I would hit him with it the next time and shut him up. Sometimes it wouldn't even take that long. We ran into another crew one night at the same restaurant and this union loving nut job that I was flying with started in on his union rant. One of the other pilots across from him had been in the company longer and was also very aware of what was going on in management. When I asked him for the truth on the story that was shared with me that day by my friend, he had another side to it (the truth) and it didn't make management look at fault at all for their decisions. Amazing!
These union loving whack jobs will do anything to get a union on the property because they don't know anything else. They are also being pushed by the union to do it. Why? The Teamsters are going to get some of your hard earned money for NOTHING. Look at what they did for Netjets and the others? It is laughable. How soon do you think it will be before those guys will get the recall notice?
In the 30's and 40's there was a justifiable reason to have unions. Today, there is not. They are run by crooks who want your money for doing nothing. Citation Air is leading the industry as a union less company that takes care of its employees. Yes, they have had to make cuts in pay, furlough, benefits, ect.. But who hasn't?????? Is there a fractional out there that has not that offers what CA does? NO! Everyone is suffering through this recession. A union at CA will only make it worse. They will be taking money that belongs to us and in return, provide us with nothing.
