Majik
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Yak,
Using your logic, nobody should have ever taken the 1st airline job, because the pay used to be horrific. Using your logic, pilots at regionals should stop their efforts to increase wages because they have historically paid low salaries. You seem to see most situations as hopeless unless someone has previously blazed the trail ahead of you and fought the fight you are not willing to even attempt.
The problem isn't "if the company can afford the salaries." They can, and it won't seriously effect their bottom line. The problem is convincing the company that they have little choice but to fund adequate pilot salaries. To date they have never been forced to have to make that choice.
Although most of us did buy into the MEC's rosey promise of NBAA comparable wages, we still have a very good chance to improve salaries significantly. One thing that is necessary to effect those changes is for the entire group to unify and support our negotiators. The problem for the last 3 years has been that our negotiators never unified the group by setting and keeping firm expectations. They were confident they could do better if they negotiated in secrecy. They never enlisted any outside help until the last minute, and lost confidence in their bargaining power and the support of the pilots they represented. We now have a second chance coming up with the new slate of negotiators. Only time will tell whether they will be more successful than the last group, but heck, they can't do much worse.
Sure, it would have been utopic is nobody would have ever taken the first job at NJA until the company offered a fair wage but that never happened. The bad news is that there are very few jobs available to go to. But the good news is that there are very few jobs available to go to, so we stand a better chance of unifying the group and making a stand that will have to be taken seriously.
Oh yeah, and if you don't think Santulli is pleased to flaunt NJI in the faces of the collective bargaining side of the company every chance he gets, then you are the one that needs an education. Just like my analogy in my earlier thread about the allowance, we intend to attempt to make the parent treat everyone fairly.
Using your logic, nobody should have ever taken the 1st airline job, because the pay used to be horrific. Using your logic, pilots at regionals should stop their efforts to increase wages because they have historically paid low salaries. You seem to see most situations as hopeless unless someone has previously blazed the trail ahead of you and fought the fight you are not willing to even attempt.
The problem isn't "if the company can afford the salaries." They can, and it won't seriously effect their bottom line. The problem is convincing the company that they have little choice but to fund adequate pilot salaries. To date they have never been forced to have to make that choice.
Although most of us did buy into the MEC's rosey promise of NBAA comparable wages, we still have a very good chance to improve salaries significantly. One thing that is necessary to effect those changes is for the entire group to unify and support our negotiators. The problem for the last 3 years has been that our negotiators never unified the group by setting and keeping firm expectations. They were confident they could do better if they negotiated in secrecy. They never enlisted any outside help until the last minute, and lost confidence in their bargaining power and the support of the pilots they represented. We now have a second chance coming up with the new slate of negotiators. Only time will tell whether they will be more successful than the last group, but heck, they can't do much worse.
Sure, it would have been utopic is nobody would have ever taken the first job at NJA until the company offered a fair wage but that never happened. The bad news is that there are very few jobs available to go to. But the good news is that there are very few jobs available to go to, so we stand a better chance of unifying the group and making a stand that will have to be taken seriously.
Oh yeah, and if you don't think Santulli is pleased to flaunt NJI in the faces of the collective bargaining side of the company every chance he gets, then you are the one that needs an education. Just like my analogy in my earlier thread about the allowance, we intend to attempt to make the parent treat everyone fairly.