All 135 pilots should read.

[kingairyahoo]

...how about a "woo-hoo", will that suffice?

 

[Corona]

Oh! That’s right there [aren't?] any pax airlines represented by the IBT.

Actually, Horizon Airlines is represented by the Teamsters. Ask any Horizon pilot what they think of them...

C

 

[h25b]

Actually, Horizon Airlines is represented by the Teamsters. Ask any Horizon pilot what they think of them...

C

Chautauqua is a Teamsters' shop ...

 

[johnny taliban]

you will not hired by any trucking company represented by the IBT.

I guess I will not need the number to that truck driving school, truck masters I think its called.

 

[G100driver]

Gern .... holy crap man, you need to get out on the road or find some more contract work.

 

[gern_blanston]

Gern .... holy crap man, you need to get out on the road or find some more contract work.

Yeah, except I'm kind of a lazy S.O.B.

 

[h25b]

You are right on the money, Timskeeper.
Chup? Yosemite? You've gotta' remember that the company can be run however management wants. Have you ever run a business? The company owes you nothing... Not a job, not anything over minimum wage, not a retirement plan, not MLK Day off, nothing. It's their choice how to treat their employees, and it's your choice whether to work there, strike there, or run screaming into the street.
If you work for a good organization, they take good care of you. If you don't, you get the shaft. I can't figger out why people can't figger that out.
If going on strike gets you another $30,000 a year, I guess that's great, but in the current economic climate, a lot of folks with jobs have decided to hunker down and see what happens.
[Up on the soapbox for a rant]
But I am certainly not gonna' tell the company I do contract charter work for to stuff it if they call me to take a trip. My job description as father/husband clearly states that I need to take care of my family. That's what it's all about for me. I must do this, not some union, my 'pilot brothers', the companies I work for, or 'the state' (nod to my communist friends.) Getting fired from my part-time job by refusing to take trips this summer would get me called before the review board at the home office, if you know what I mean, because it would take a bite out of the budget at my very old-fashioned, nuclear, mom-stays-at-home-with-the-kids household.
I quit a couple of jobs to get where I'm at. I was searching and saw opportunity. In fact, I'm still searching. A smart pilot always is. It seems to me (and many other non-union, non-frax pilots) that some of the frax pilots that I bump into on the road might have better spent their excess energy over the last 2 years looking for a different job rather than b!tch!ng about the one that they currently hate.
[/Off of soapbox, end of rant]

Simply an outstanding post, so much so I have edited my signature line.

P.S. - I operate out of one of those "very-old-fashioned, nuclear, mom-stays-at-home-with-the-kids households" as well... Very respectable and under-appreciated family lifestyle these days.

 

[gern_blanston]

P.S. - I operate out of one of those "very-old-fashioned, nuclear, mom-stays-at-home-with-the-kids households" as well... Very respectable and under-appreciated family lifestyle these days.

Pretty rare these days. It's amazing how many people look at you like you're from another planet when you mention it. Go figger.

 

[h25b]

Pretty rare these days. It's amazing how many people look at you like you're from another planet when you mention it. Go figger.

I get the same response as well. I hear, "how can you afford it?" a lot... Answer is putting the kids in some day care would cost so much it's not worth the wife working. Nothing against those who do, but I couldn't stand the thought of my kids in one of these places. Maybe we're neurotic ... My kids are my biggest investment... I'm willing to die broke as long as I feel like their heads will be screwed on straight as adults.

 

[gern_blanston]

Scary, H25B. I wonder if I had a twin and we were separated at birth, because you sound a lot like me! I guess if you're ever in the great Pacific Northwest, I'll have to buy you a root beer.


-ps- No guessing about it... I AM neurotic