Lets talk unions....

[XPOO]

No, sorry, no union here. No need for one. 85 total dispatchers, 28 working on any given day, pumping out 70 or so releases in a 10 hour shift. One of the most advanced dispatch offices for our type of operations. Equipment always fixed or replaced pronto. Work as much overtime as you want, swap any shift you want. Trade days as you please. And a pretty good overall payscale according to industry standards. And yet, we do all of this with an in-house Association. No dues! Tell me again how a union is going to make things better for us?

 

[XPOO]

And sorry again 405, I was talking about ShutupandFly when I made the flame-bait remark. Not you, you're cool.

 

[CRJDispatchKid]

Where do you work?

No, sorry, no union here. No need for one. 85 total dispatchers, 28 working on any given day, pumping out 70 or so releases in a 10 hour shift. One of the most advanced dispatch offices for our type of operations. Equipment always fixed or replaced pronto. Work as much overtime as you want, swap any shift you want. Trade days as you please. And a pretty good overall payscale according to industry standards. And yet, we do all of this with an in-house Association. No dues! Tell me again how a union is going to make things better for us?

 

[flyjumpseat]

Yeah - good question. Come on XXOO, fill us all in so we all know where to send our resume's.

No, sorry, no union here. No need for one. 85 total dispatchers, 28 working on any given day, pumping out 70 or so releases in a 10 hour shift. One of the most advanced dispatch offices for our type of operations. Equipment always fixed or replaced pronto. Work as much overtime as you want, swap any shift you want. Trade days as you please. And a pretty good overall payscale according to industry standards. And yet, we do all of this with an in-house Association. No dues! Tell me again how a union is going to make things better for us?

 

[D'Angelo]

No, sorry, no union here. No need for one. 85 total dispatchers, 28 working on any given day, pumping out 70 or so releases in a 10 hour shift. One of the most advanced dispatch offices for our type of operations. Equipment always fixed or replaced pronto. Work as much overtime as you want, swap any shift you want. Trade days as you please. And a pretty good overall payscale according to industry standards. And yet, we do all of this with an in-house Association. No dues! Tell me again how a union is going to make things better for us?

Your absoluetly right. A union would do no good for you what-so-ever. All unions do is rob you blind of 2% of your check every month. Excuse me I mis spoke. 1.95%. I don't want to use false numbers like the hard-core union a$$es who lie for fun just to get their members all riled up. I wish here at comair we had no union. They are unnessecarily shackling us down!!!!

 

[shooter]

No, sorry, no union here. No need for one. 85 total dispatchers, 28 working on any given day, pumping out 70 or so releases in a 10 hour shift. One of the most advanced dispatch offices for our type of operations. Equipment always fixed or replaced pronto. Work as much overtime as you want, swap any shift you want. Trade days as you please. And a pretty good overall payscale according to industry standards. And yet, we do all of this with an in-house Association. No dues! Tell me again how a union is going to make things better for us?

What is an "in-house Association"? And how does it work?

 

[XPOO]

flyjumpseat, I think you already know. And sure, things aren't the best where we work, but hell I don't think a union would do more then SADA.

Association - We have an elected fellow dispatcher as our president and he has a committee that together voices the collective thoughts of the dispatchers to the management. The president is constantly trying to improve our QOL, works hard at it, but makes little lee-way. About exactly what a union would do for us, only no money involved.

 

[shooter]

flyjumpseat, I think you already know. And sure, things aren't the best where we work, but hell I don't think a union would do more then SADA.

Association - We have an elected fellow dispatcher as our president and he has a committee that together voices the collective thoughts of the dispatchers to the management. The president is constantly trying to improve our QOL, works hard at it, but makes little lee-way. About exactly what a union would do for us, only no money involved.

Thanks for the reply. We have "bottoms-up" meetings. Where management comes in for meetings to let us know whats going on and for us to express our concerns in an open discussion. No president or committee, but is a good outlet for us to directly discuss with management. Sometimes things are an easy fix, other times nothing gets done, but we keep trying.

 

[XPOO]

May the never-ending struggle continue, shooter!

 

[homerjdispatch]

The president is constantly trying to improve our QOL, works hard at it, but makes little lee-way.

"Lee-way"? Not a play on words was it, XPOO?? Thats funny!

 

[flyjumpseat]

Yeah XPOO - I do already know. I was being somewhat sarcastic and yet somewhat serious. Some of what you said is true - but some is a bit of a stretch, IMO.

You are correct IMO, no union needed here.

We may have the technology, but tell me, how long has that multi-million dollar communications system been sitting idle at the Coordinator desks? And why can't we even turn them on? And don't get me started on the software programming issues.

Releases per desk aren't as bad as 70 in a ten hour shift. 1645 flights / 28 dispatchers = 59 releases. Even if you drop it down to 25 per day, still only 65 releases per desk. And if the E120 desks are bulkier, then that brings the rest of the desks down a couple. Today, I've got 54.

Equipment fixed? You haven't been here long have you? Yes, things get fixed - eventually.

Pay scale is slipping fast and Management won't discuss with us any adjustments. Company is making HUGE profits but do we get cost of living? (Sorry, now I'm sounding like an ASA pilot, d'oh!)

OT is available and trade what ya want, but don’t expect to get your PTO accrual for those hours.

Live in SGU and have to do your 5 hours on the CRJ? Well, good luck getting to LAX or SLC. Even better, hope you can get back - 'cause you won't get The Company to cover your hotel cost when you get bumped.

For the most part, yes. We got it good here at SkyWest. But your painting of this picture sounds like it was taken from the first day lecture at AFDTC if ya know what I mean.

Send in your resumes, we do have a good, solid company here, good work rules, and good people working here. And better yet, no union dues.

 

[XPOO]

You're killing me. Okay, let's play take and give. I don't accrue any PTO on overtime worked. However, one overnight shift worked and I get paid like I did it every day for the whole two weeks. I may bitch about the first one, but I definately aint bitching about the second one. Instead of focusing on the negatives, because there will always be them, start looking at the positives flyjumpseat.

 

[ShutupandFly]

Why is anyone even giving this Union flame-baiter more fuel for his fire? Ignore the @sshole and move on. We all know unions are not beneficial to the overall group of dispatchers at a company. He's just mad that we already knew this and he had to find out the hard way!

I have known this for a long time. If you read back in the tread you will see this is not my first dance with a union, and I'm not mad just amazed that so many people in this office swallowed everything the union said. So no, not everyone knows "unions are not beneficial to the overall group of dispatchers at a company." The dispatchers at this one are going to have to find out the hard way. At least you got half of it right.

The @sshole

 

[ShutupandFly]

And sorry again 405, I was talking about ShutupandFly when I made the flame-bait remark. Not you, you're cool.

Isn't that sweet? Hey man you have an admirer.

 

[XPOO]

Well, you kept coming back with pro-union banter, pick a side, quit flip-flopping.