"GO AROUND"
Again?!?!?
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ASA_Aviator said:I don't mind being in a slim minority. Hell, I would rather be in the correct minority than the ignorant majority. I'm not in this for the wings, and I'm certainly not in it for chicks. I'm in this because no other career would satisfy me, and that's after being in the corporate world for quite a while.
I don't have rose colored glasses here. I just think that a strike is the wrong option. I'm not saying that being efficient and good to our passengers alone would make QOL better, but it would show the management that we can make the company better. From that strong standpoint we could negotiate our position more effectively.
A strike will permanently damage the company, and make this fight personal. Nothing will be gained by either side, and most of us will be out of a job. How could that be a good thing? What kind of sane pilot could EVER support such a drastic and potentially job-ending action?
Besides, the decision to strike is not ours. Thankfully that responsibility rests with the negotiators at the national level.
Finally, I certainly am not embarassing myself here. The people who should be embarassed are the ones showing their lack of business sense and education.
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(The reason for the recent sign-up is that I've been reading this site in disgust for so long, that I just couldn't keep silent any longer.)
You're missing the point. If we had a managment that thought like you then your points would work out. But we have a direct opposite managment mentality. If we were the best airline out there the companies thinking would be "Why should we negotiate when things are going great and the pilots are doing it for their current contract." Then lets reinterperate the existing contract into worse QOL and involuntary concessions by stringing them along for 3 years. We don't work in Utopia, we work for a company that doesn't say it but absolutely does not respect the job we do as pilots.
Sure they pay it a lot of lip service, but that improves nothing, including morale.
You think that when things get better they would come to us and offer us the improvements that we want? How long would that be? Never.
Look at the history of the airlines, they are always saying the times are bad, we're not making money etc.... Yet the exec's always seem to get their raises and bonuses.
Oh, but they have to do that to retain the quality people, Right? Only they don't think of us as quality people. Cause if we are here more than 5 yrs we should have found a better job(a quote from many of our exec's). Because they have to pay us too much.
For the last three years we have been doing our job's , and the jobs of many others(departure coordinators, fuelers, catering, cleaning, rampers). Thinking the way you say we should we have been. Where has that gotten us? Lied to, cheated, disrespected. Shall I continue?
So, where is your answer to all this, if a stike vote and then possibly a strike is wrong? How do you propose we get them to negotiate any improvements to our contract?
For the last 3 years our pilot group has been doing our jobs