Helping fellow pilots during a furlough

[milky]

While, I'm a fan of helping out in many ways when somebody needs help, paying somebody's salary out of your paycheck is a bit over the top for me. We already pay unemployment insurance out of our paycheck each month in taxes. Why would somebody want to give up a piece of an ever-shrinking paycheck?

Pilots help pilots by telling them to put some money in the bank because furloughs happen unexpectedly.

 

[Hamburger]

The best way you can help your furloughed brethren is to NOT WORK ONE MINUTE over what you are required to by your contract. Every second you work over guarantee is work the guy on street should be doing. OPEN TIME is work the company can't cover. They should be forced to cancel the flight if the furloughed guy isn't allowed to do it. Picking up OPEN TIME while guys are on the street makes you a DIRTBAG.

 

[Tweaker]

Say what you will about USAPA, just please utilize one of the other many and varied topic posts to do so.

I am furloughed from US Airways. USAPA is about to send to the pilots to ratify a program to fund the furloughed pilot's medical insurance costs.

There is also a program about to become reality to do just what someone else mentioned; provide funds for a furloughed pilot who can tangibly demonstrate a very real financial need on a case by case basis. This comes from a collective fund from the East pilot that already existed.

Both are surprising to me, and may make the difference between me having to sell my house or other desperate measures.

I ain't sayin' nothing, I'm jes' sayin'.

 

[Beetle007]

People never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money --- only for wanting to keep your own money.