mrtoy2 said:ay". We, as a unionized workforce need to make ourselves heard. The way to do this is Demand that we 1)be compensated what we Deserve! 2) Demand that our management teams perform real management! 3) Hold our managers accountable for their mistakes as they would hold us accountable for ours! 4) This needs to be shown to our customers in a VERY PUBLIC WAY! It is the only way that they will understand. whew...had to get that out...JMHO
Well if we were in fact truly a unionized workforce we might have a chance of doing that... A true union would negotiate for all airlines for all seats for all aircraft.....In a true union you would start out as an apprentice not making much and going to school to continue learning about your trade. As you progressed and put in time you would gain further job cards and would be capable of putting in for better and better paying positions until you reached master level and that would be as high as you would go.......What you would not have is college kids flying 90 seat jets and bitching about their pay...Jet jobs would be for those pilots that had obtained the rank of at least journyman.. say after 6000hrs or so....So you would not have airlines trying to drum up business and make profits at the expense of their workers. All 737's would pay the same with the exception of colas and per diem. That way you would have a level labor playing field and successful companies would be differentiated by there ability to read their market and manage their assets and plan for the future(SWA)........Much like successful electrical contracting firms... They come and they go but the well run ones are still here....
To get there with a national union we would first have to completeley overhaul the pilot rating system to include substantial hours in categories and class and second we would have to stop running around acting like a bunch of white collar managers when in fact we are blue collar tradesman......nether one will ever happen so the system will stay broken...........