outtahere
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- Feb 7, 2004
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You know the first few posters on here are unbelieveable. I came from an airline that cared nothing for its employee's, maint. was terrible, schedules were attrocious, now I work for ASA and I love my job. However, I also believe ASA would be a better airline if the employees were treated fairly. One thing I can say about that "other" airline is the pilot group was incredibly unified, even though we had no union. ASA; its no wonder we are treated with no respect by management, we can't even treat each other with respect. For those of you on this board who claim to be SENIOR, what good does that do you at a company like ASA. You will be Junior Manned, you will be drafted to go fly as a first officer even though you haven't been in the right seat for over ten years, your pay will be audited every month, and they will take money away. You will be given airport reserve, even though we don't have airport reserve in our contract. Perhaps you have been here for twenty years, and you know what it is alot better now than when you were flying a Bandit, but that was then. OUR contract is over six years old, it is being reinterpreted at will, are you so afraid of management that you refuse to stand up for yourself. Our management is like the bully in middle school, until you stood up and kicked his a$$, he tormented you daily. Now I do not want lose my job, but I am not willing to stand by and be abused. We have a fifteen year agreement with Delta for fying, it is performance based, Skywest is paid fee per departure. If our cost goes up, all that happens is Skywest's profit margin shrinks a little. Delta is not going to dump us because our costs go up. However if we go on strike, Skywest is penalized for the lack of departures, costing them alot more than what we are asking for in a new contract. Who has more to lose, you making sh!ty wages on an even crappier schedule, or Skywest who just invested $425 million into us. Use the tools that you have. A strike vote is a tool that is used to tell management enough is enough. Coex took a strike vote after a year and a half of negotiations, we have been doing this for three years. How much longer do we stand around and do nothing?
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