Mesaba declared bk the day before my wedding and subsequently proceeded to get me furloughed through shamruptcy 2006. Who orchestrated that? Also, having a sick company and screwing people is completely different than one that is extremely healthy and screwing people. We all have paid our dues at some point, but it is usually because their company is losing money.
And on top of that, your story is the exact bs I am talking about. Everyone says how Delta is so great. How did you get there and how are they treating those outside the inner circle that are helping them with those profits? Just raising awareness is all.
Raising awareness of what? That Management cuts benefits and wages where and when they can get away with it if the market will support it? Thanks for the heads up, we had no idea that happens in the airline business, or anywhere else.
I sympathize with RJ people who took cuts. It sucks, no doubt. But my sympathy ends when they start whining like bri5150 and others, about how it should've been.
From day one RJ pilots know they are filling a market niche as people willing to work for a fraction of how pilots have been traditionally compensated. Problem is, there are so many of us willing to undercut each other's pay, management is able to take advantage of the situation.
Don't blame Delta management, it is THEIR JOB to get the best deal based on market realities. If they could pay us minimum wage C2015, they would do it. That doesn't make them bad or evil.
If you want to B**** and point fingers for what happend, Point the finger at yourself, and your fellow pilots who were willing to work for less than someone else for the same work, all because you were trying to leap ahead of your peers in the rat race. The whip saw is a boomerang. Endeavor people got screwed, but they were the screwers of others before that.
If you want to raise awareness, raise awareness that Pilots need to start unifying and working together to make progress in the labor market so things get better in the future and the whipsaw stops.
As pilots, we are a labor group with incredible responsibility and unique technical skills; a recipe for what should be outrageously great compensation. Yet we have been fractured and divided into groups that all undercut each other, and the result has been near constant erosion in pay and benefits over the last 30 years for everyone.
