pilotyip
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Better Way?
Have it put in your next union contract to hire off the street to protect the pay of the brother hood. I bet it does not happen remember all contracts are local in nature, and the locals protect thier own.
What is a better way, ABC needs a 757 Captain, a current qualified one was just laid off by XYZ airlines, ABC hires him at $180K/yr. Sorry Mr F/O who has been at ABC for 7 years, it is cheaper to do that than upgrade you, so stay there at your $90K/yr job.Here's how unions define us as simply hourly blue collar workers: Date of hire seniority lists.
Here's how to define ourselves in more of a professional status: Abolish seniority lists and pay based on education, training, experience, and professional accomplishments.
Why does a furloughed pilot with 10,000 hours and a pocket full of type ratings get paid $19/hour sitting in the right seat at a regional just like a 300 hour CFI? It is completely illogical. If you could move into the a comparable paying position with another company think of the power you would have. If you didn't like your pay and working conditions at airline ABC then you could move to ariline XYZ without starting over. Do you think that if an account manager from Deloitte and Touche crossed over to Ernst & Young that he would have to start over as an intern? That's what our industry does.
It'll never happen in my lifetime but it would have the same positive effect on our industry that it has had on every other industry in the free world.
Have it put in your next union contract to hire off the street to protect the pay of the brother hood. I bet it does not happen remember all contracts are local in nature, and the locals protect thier own.
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