waveflyer
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Regional Pilots Plan Sick Out: September 1-5, 2014
Over 20,000 regional airline pilots might be calling in sick on their flights between September 1-5, 2014 to send a strong message to the airline and travel industry. With most major carriers using regional airlines to grow their networks and fly routes not suites for larges planes, if this movement is carried out successfully, airports will be a mess nationwide.
The website organizing the movement boasts a lot of information such as pay scale comparisons, numbers reporting the pilot shortage, the ?1500″ hour, and information on the Railway Labor Act and sends this message:
The purpose of this is not to bankrupt our employers, but to simply send a message. Some of our mainline partners have been posting record profits while we flounder in an endless sea of nothing. Uncertain futures are on the horizon and non-existent calls for a greener pasture. We need to send a message that we are unified and will do what it takes to keep moving forward.
We are in short supply and not easily replaceable. Pilots need to realize that. We are professional airline pilots and need to start earning a wage in line with a professional airline pilot.
They?re hoping regional pilots across the nation will stand together:
Many pilots will not call in sick mid-trip fear of disrupting their fellow crew members and a phone call from the chief pilot. But most of us have no qualms about calling in sick before the trip starts. That is EXACTLY what this effort is.
If your trip(s) start on September 1st through September 5th CALL OUT!
Evaluate your mental and/or physical well-being. Schedule your much needed dental checkup, get that nasty mole checked out or simply go to a walk-in. Inform your doctor of your symptoms and get a note. Turn that note in when you come back.
We need to stand together and show management, ALPA, the RAA and the flying public that if things do not change, we will make them change.
Will they fire one or two pilots for individually staging a job action? Yes.
Will they fire 20,000 Regional Airline Pilots that stood together in an unprecedented way and made U.S. airline history? Not a chance!
Over 20,000 regional airline pilots might be calling in sick on their flights between September 1-5, 2014 to send a strong message to the airline and travel industry. With most major carriers using regional airlines to grow their networks and fly routes not suites for larges planes, if this movement is carried out successfully, airports will be a mess nationwide.
The website organizing the movement boasts a lot of information such as pay scale comparisons, numbers reporting the pilot shortage, the ?1500″ hour, and information on the Railway Labor Act and sends this message:
The purpose of this is not to bankrupt our employers, but to simply send a message. Some of our mainline partners have been posting record profits while we flounder in an endless sea of nothing. Uncertain futures are on the horizon and non-existent calls for a greener pasture. We need to send a message that we are unified and will do what it takes to keep moving forward.
We are in short supply and not easily replaceable. Pilots need to realize that. We are professional airline pilots and need to start earning a wage in line with a professional airline pilot.
They?re hoping regional pilots across the nation will stand together:
Many pilots will not call in sick mid-trip fear of disrupting their fellow crew members and a phone call from the chief pilot. But most of us have no qualms about calling in sick before the trip starts. That is EXACTLY what this effort is.
If your trip(s) start on September 1st through September 5th CALL OUT!
Evaluate your mental and/or physical well-being. Schedule your much needed dental checkup, get that nasty mole checked out or simply go to a walk-in. Inform your doctor of your symptoms and get a note. Turn that note in when you come back.
We need to stand together and show management, ALPA, the RAA and the flying public that if things do not change, we will make them change.
Will they fire one or two pilots for individually staging a job action? Yes.
Will they fire 20,000 Regional Airline Pilots that stood together in an unprecedented way and made U.S. airline history? Not a chance!
