400K piano pushers can teach us something

[KarmaPolice]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Broadway_stagehand_strike[/URL]

Stagehands Making $400,000-Plus Strike Carnegie Opening

Are your skills worth more than a someone who pushes pianos onto a stage?

Do you take pride in what you do, and how hard you worked to get where you are?

Do you want to make the profession you chose better for yourself, your peers, and those who will come after you?

I get why people take jobs paying lower than industry average. It's self interest.

But why do you do this, and not try to make things better? You and your family should be the first thing you care about, but not all you care about.

It's time for pilots to STOP screwing themselves by not caring when they screw over the industry at large. This is NOT greed to work for better things for yourself and your peers.

1. Join the union push at your airline. (Unions are not perfect, but better than nothing)

2. If your airline has a union, volunteer, call your reps, talk to your peers, get involved. DO SOMETHING. WE ARE NOT EARNING WHAT OUR SKILLS OR LEVERAGE DESERVES. Subway train drivers might be making more than you!

We are all in this together and all our contracts are in tandem to each other's.

 

[LHRCrewDog]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Broadway_stagehand_strike[/URL]

Stagehands Making $400,000-Plus Strike Carnegie Opening

Are your skills worth more than a someone who pushes pianos onto a stage?

Do you take pride in what you do, and how hard you worked to get where you are?

Do you want to make the profession you chose better for yourself, your peers, and those who will come after you?

I get why people take jobs paying lower than industry average. It's self interest.

But why do you do this, and not try to make things better? You and your family should be the first thing you care about, but not all you care about.

It's time for pilots to STOP screwing themselves by not caring when they screw over the industry at large. This is NOT greed to work for better things for yourself and your peers.

1. Join the union push at your airline. (Unions are not perfect, but better than nothing)

2. If your airline has a union, volunteer, call your reps, talk to your peers, get involved. DO SOMETHING. WE ARE NOT EARNING WHAT OUR SKILLS OR LEVERAGE DESERVES. Subway train drivers might be making more than you!

We are all in this together and all our contracts are in tandem to each other's.

Did you see the last "union push" by ALPA national for all regionals, specifically Eagle, to basically take concessions?

 

[KarmaPolice]

Yes! And it's not just ALPA carriers talking concessions. This is happening not because ALPA is evil, but because there are too many people who are not involved. ALPA will naturally serve as the mouthpiece of management because of economic self interest. It's up to us to make ALPA and other unions into what they need to be.

There are too many pilots who underestimate their worth, and by nature, are happy with their lot in life. Yet don't realize they are worth so much more.

Look at these people pushing Pianos!!! We are flying human beings around, and many of us literally earning less than GED educated people driving busses. AND not doing anything about it.

I believe this generation of pilots has been put in a tough place by our predecessors, and it's up to us to get involved, and CHANGE the way ALPA and other unions operate.

IF we all got involved, even a little, we could make things better.