waveflyer
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ICB- no -a national seniority list is NOT a bad idea. You just don't follow your logic all the way to it's end. What i'm saying is that if we can divide up seniority lists a thousand different ways and make pilots start all over at the bottom 4, 5 and 6 or more times in their career - as if they are a kid out of college! - then our seniority is working against us and it's value is less and less. When you think of the negatives of a NSL you combine our current system and your assumptions of what a NSL would be.
Seniority in THIS environment is worthless. It is the single biggest determinant in our career and it's being given away through scope and compromised through mergers and liquidations. It screws up our whole career b/c management's nationwide know we'd give up our left nut to keep whatever seniority we have.
A combined seniority list is the solution. Well it's the unionized solution. The other is the guild solution in which we get rid of the concept and let the "free for all" happen. But the in-between solution has to go away.
Seniority in THIS environment is worthless. It is the single biggest determinant in our career and it's being given away through scope and compromised through mergers and liquidations. It screws up our whole career b/c management's nationwide know we'd give up our left nut to keep whatever seniority we have.
A combined seniority list is the solution. Well it's the unionized solution. The other is the guild solution in which we get rid of the concept and let the "free for all" happen. But the in-between solution has to go away.