Jet Blue Pilot Contract

[colorado418]

Re: jointops

......My most recent point is that YOU DO NOT NEED AN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT TO GET RID OF A BAD APPLE! The company need only to call the guy in and fire him. My 2 bigger issues with the concept are that: 1) guys sign a potentially life changing document with huge implications without even reading it or having a lawyer explain the contents, and 2) guys are thinking that things will always be just like they are today and that is never true, especially in the airline industry. ....

My .04 worth....
Bad Apples..... if left in place they not only do they stink, they make the whole barrel of apples rotten. Chuck 'em. Our "values committee" (kind of a pro standards) will make sure that we don't loose any good fruit...

BIGGER ISSUES.... (from above) 1.) We are all big boys now. I think that we can read the contract. It is in big letters... Also, "yaks" if it concerns you so much, please save yourself the terrible agony that "we" live with every day working under the above said "working agreement. I.e. you probably would not want to work here.
2.) If you have read any of the posts here about folks trying to get on and those who have, you may notice that many of them are FURLOUGHED!! They are probably quite aware of "downturns" in the aviation community...

Sorry for being a smart butt. I only had 3 hours of sleep last night... kind of fun though...

 

[Falconjet]

Good Point

Even if you drink the blue koolaid and figure that nothing could ever go wrong with such enlightened management personnel in place at Blue, Yaks makes an excellent point about the self-perpetuating clause of the employment contract. If (when) money gets tight down the road the "honorable" thing to do is to cut costs or raise revenue so that the company can continue to make a profit and survive. If the management team has a built-in vehicle to reduce costs by "honoring" the terms of its contract with its pilots, the "honorable" thing for management to do is to utilize it and protect the shareholders.

Unlikely, lets hope so. Possible, yes. Something to consider, you bet.

Does that make JetBlue a bad place to work, absolutely not. Just people gathering info and using it to make the best decisions they can.

 

[Skank]

It's also instructive to consider what the more traditional airline collective bargaining agreements offer, and what happens to those agreements when times are bad. Have you ever heard of a no furlough clause? Yeah, me too.

Sorry General, didn't mean to highjack your Song infomercial.