Medeco,
While I understand your stance, I just can not agree. Think of it this way, who told you the company will not be profitable if they give us a good contract? What do they consider profitable? Where do the profits go? Using the buzz word of profitability is worthless without substance. Let me be blunt with you. The company is telling you and feeding you this information. Be directly or indirectly through the union. Seems like a conflict for the same people that are telling you about profitability, are also the ones controlling the profitability. Now, what are they disclosing? Are you seeing how much of the profit is going to management? Is there info on how much profit is going to SKYW Inc shareholders? Can you see where they have controlled cost and created profitability? Have they ever, ever, tried to control cost and profit with measure other than taking from the employees and infastructor of the company? This is something to take home when you get the standard speech on profitability. Remember, the data they are disclosing comes from people on the inside. People they pay a lot of money to for making the data look the way they want it. Remember they are paying gobs of money to lawyers and professional negotiators, money equal to that of multiple pilots or employees, to push what they want. Here is what I think about. When a management officals talks about cost and profits, I always wonder if they have given up anything. I wonder if they have to tell their families that Christmas will not be so great this year. I also think about FO's, that are professionals, that have a net pay of less than $20,000 this year. I wonder have they ever told a shareholder 'hey we need to take care of the employees in order to facilitate a better operation, in the long term creating a better product. In order for us to have a profit, and take care of employees your profits will be less this year and maybe a few years to come." See SWA if you do not think that is real. SWA takes care of employees (aside from the current AAI situation on SLI), in turn the employees take care of the product and customers, and the customers then take care of the profits and the shareholders. Complete opposite everywhere else. Shareholders and execs first, then customers, and IF enough is left, the employees. Any wonder why no one cares about the company or its success? Why moral is low and trust is gone?
What you see is not always the full story. So, with that, if it up to the pilots to make the airline profitable, then fine. Management is not needed then since we as group do their jobs. Lets us operate the company and control the cost, since the only tool they have is to pry it off labors back. That is University of Phoenix online business school skills. Not impressive nor compelling
