Evergreen pilots vote to authorize strike

[cr7driver]

Did anyone read the article in the Oregonian and then read the comments by some of the readers?
Its amazing just how myopic some people can be. They have never walked a day in our shoes and yet they feel they know everything about airlines, flying and operations. It makes my blood boil.
Unions are there for a reason!
And I speak from experience when I say that "we" as Evergreen pilots never ever left a shipment for our troops on the ramp because we had differences with our employer and that includes flying into harms way to get them there.
Its Mr. Smith who drapes himself in our nations flag and then balks at the very concept of what it is to be American and that is to organize and stand up for what you believe in.
He has profited immensely from the spoils of this war and instead of giving back and thanking the people that helped him get there he chooses to build a water park...in Oregon for that matter! WTF!! Over.
So when I see that my fellow zoners want to stand up for better pay and QOL...I say go for it!

 

[chickenpilot]

Evergreen International Airlines Pilots Overwhelmingly Authorize Union to Call Strike
97 Percent Vote “Yes” to Walk if Contract Talks Fail
McMINNVILLE, OR—The crewmembers of Evergreen International Airlines, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), resoundingly support conducting a lawful strike if an agreement is not reached with their management. In a recent strike ballot issued by the union leadership to the pilot group, an overwhelming 97 percent of crewmembers voted in favor of a lawful strike, should it become necessary to conclude a fair collective agreement with Evergreen management. More than 86 percent of eligible pilots participated in the polling. The crewmembers have been in negotiations since 2005.

 

[Captain Oveur]

I wish Evergreen guys the best, and I don't doubt you DESERVE more.
But a strike is too often a dead end for your jobs and others'.
I'm not saying management deserves kudos for trying of extract the
last penny from the employee's work, I'm not an Evergreen employee, nor
have I ever worked there. But sometimes jobs just wouldn't BE there with a
better deal, alas.

 

[HA25]

I wish Evergreen guys the best, and I don't doubt you DESERVE more.
But a strike is too often a dead end for your jobs and others'.
I'm not saying management deserves kudos for trying of extract the
last penny from the employee's work, I'm not an Evergreen employee, nor
have I ever worked there. But sometimes jobs just wouldn't BE there with a
better deal, alas.

spoken like a true corporate pilot... With that attitude, we may all just as well resign to working for minimum wage 6 days a week for the privilege of calling ourselves pilots. Using the APC payscale and 65 hour month, the average EZ 1st year FO makes $3500/month and is gone 400 hours... that works out to $8.75/hr or just about a buck over minimum wage for his time away from his wife and kids, and that DOESN'T include his jumpseating back and forth to base... /sigh


As for the vote, I believe only 14% didn't vote of the eligible and that doesn't make for 14% that will cross... even if 1/2 do, that's not enough to man their fleet (I recall they have 10 or 11 planes now)... and anyone who's young enough to face the reality of a future job search knows that it's pretty much the end of their career if they cross...

I say stick with it, and demand industry leading..

 

[GG747]

The airline is the "cash cow". Buying the Space Shuttle, building the water park and etc with the airlines money. Even if we got a 50% raise, the extra projects just will not stop.

Hopefully we can get a contract that reflects the equipment we fly and the professionalism of our flight crews. We all have kids to feed and hopefully some day, we would like to put them through college.

 

[GittinFatter]

If evergreen would go under because their pilots got a contract that paralelled the rest in their sector,they are doomed anyway.
They need to whack the old man beside the head; stay firm. There is enough business out there that he will not walk away. He will cry and scream and threaten, he will bribe and finagle; he will cry poor me. You guys hang in there!

 

[CX880]

I wish Evergreen guys the best, and I don't doubt you DESERVE more.
But a strike is too often a dead end for your jobs and others'.
I'm not saying management deserves kudos for trying of extract the
last penny from the employee's work, I'm not an Evergreen employee, nor
have I ever worked there. But sometimes jobs just wouldn't BE there with a
better deal, alas.

Is this supposed to be a poem? intersting writing style there.