Drill Sgt. Dad
Fugitive Recovery Agent
- Joined
- Aug 29, 2005
- Posts
- 291
Colgan hires like crazy due to high turnover. I had an interview there. My Grandmother died and the funeral was day of the interview. They wouldn't let me reschedule the interview. They treat people like crap and they try to run you off after a few years. I know three this has happened to.
As for Mesa, Nobody stuck a gun to thier heads to sign that contract. The NMB already rulled any agreement would have to include the Freedom Pilots and the CCAIR pilots under one CBA. Meanwhile ALPA president Duane Woerthless signed off on the agreement willingly and knowingly this would set back the regional industry 10-15 years. This was the only way around scope clauses the legacies instilled in the 1990's. Meanwhile, I have a few friends at Mesa and they tell me the new hires have to work on thier days off deliviering pizzas just to make ends meet.
Why is it like this? Because these starry eyed young 22 and 23 year olds come out of school and are willing to work for these wages in hopes to get on at a legacy carrier. The legacy cairrer jobs are drying up and fast. Many will make the regionals thier final stop, Like myself, because I didn't go to college to become a pilot, this is my third career. Trust me, if new hires would refuse to work for $20K a year, mgt would be forced to raise the pay, just like when the industry was Pay for training, mgt had to abolish that practice when they couldn't hire qualified pilots. It works the same way. Beleive me, it does.
JMHO
As for Mesa, Nobody stuck a gun to thier heads to sign that contract. The NMB already rulled any agreement would have to include the Freedom Pilots and the CCAIR pilots under one CBA. Meanwhile ALPA president Duane Woerthless signed off on the agreement willingly and knowingly this would set back the regional industry 10-15 years. This was the only way around scope clauses the legacies instilled in the 1990's. Meanwhile, I have a few friends at Mesa and they tell me the new hires have to work on thier days off deliviering pizzas just to make ends meet.
Why is it like this? Because these starry eyed young 22 and 23 year olds come out of school and are willing to work for these wages in hopes to get on at a legacy carrier. The legacy cairrer jobs are drying up and fast. Many will make the regionals thier final stop, Like myself, because I didn't go to college to become a pilot, this is my third career. Trust me, if new hires would refuse to work for $20K a year, mgt would be forced to raise the pay, just like when the industry was Pay for training, mgt had to abolish that practice when they couldn't hire qualified pilots. It works the same way. Beleive me, it does.
JMHO
