Compass Called!!!!!!!!!!

[Adam]

On SEVEN's prediction that senior pilots will take hugh cuts (20%) I agree.
This threat of losing what they consider their flying to another pilot list is what is going to make them cave in. My point is that xj pilots need not give in at all. These airplanes are coming to XJ. Management (Uncle Carl) will not risk a work stopage, They will extract as much as a cut as they can in the next two weeks with our union. When this is all done NW will have reached it's goal of transfering as much of the DC9 flying to XJ as they could get away with.

 

[Prophead]

I really don't think as many senior guys as you think will take 20% pay cuts. Almost every high seniority person 15 years and below that I have talked with would strike before giving 20%. If this is the end, lets go out with our heads high. Don't compare us to the NWA senior pilots. They have a pensions to lose. If this is really happening. There may be no choice but to strike and tie up our routes.
What do you consider senior? There is not many people over 15 years here.

 

[SEVEN]

I really don't think as many senior guys as you think will take 20% pay cuts. Almost every high seniority person 15 years and below that I have talked with would strike before giving 20%. If this is the end, lets go out with our heads high. Don't compare us to the NWA senior pilots. They have a pensions to lose. If this is really happening. There may be no choice but to strike and tie up our routes.
What do you consider senior? There is not many people over 15 years here.

I think anyone over 10 years at a regional is senior. I just can't see those MSP XJ guys giving all that up. The majority of them have a "way of life" that they enjoy (wife, kids, land to hunt on, cooking steaks on the grill on the weekend). They will take 20% over starting from scratch somewhere else at 1 year pay as an F.O.