Comair Pilots Drew the Line

[B727FA]

If we were all unionized, under one union, with one seniority list, then yes it should help that. In most other professions pay is based on experience not how long you have been at a certain company.

But you knew this before you got here. Don't be "surprised" now.

For example, my dad is a computer program manager for a bank. When he lost his job due to "right" sizing he went to a loan company doing the same kind of work and is now making more money at his new company than he was making at the old one.

Dumb luck. I can show you a bunch more who are in a pickle now. They can't afford to take a job that's offered (and meet their obligations on their house, boat, 3 cars, etc.) b/c there are new college grads who'll do it for less. (Sound familiar?)

In order to do that with pilots we all need to be under the same union with the same seniority number.

Everybody gets #1?

It doesn't make sense for a pilot of 25 years to lose his job and have to start out making the same amount of money he made when he first started flying, just because his management made bad decisions.

Well, duh. But there are plenty of us who have done just that. When Job X is gone, it's gone. At that point it's academic as to whom caused the pilot to lose the job...it's gone. Of course it doesn't make sense.

 

[ex j-41]

So what if we lobby the FAA to make it a regulation that you need an ATPL
in order to fly 121.