dsptchrNJA said:
I didn't just fall off the turnip truck. No pilot who has LEGITIMATELY called in tired has been reprimanded (yes - that I am aware of). I wasn't going to say it but you forced me to point out that there have been crews that abused the rule.
Can I say I know the specifics of the 50 cases you mentioned (assuming for your benefit this number is accurate)? - of course not. But if you have worked here more than a week you are aware of the safety culture at NJA, and that pilots are asked to meet their responsibility as professionals and deny the trip if they are too tired.
OK, for the purposes of your argument, since they don't all cross my desk, let's say that you know with absolute certain a pilot that was reprimanded illegitimately for calling in tired. You need to LEAVE this company NOW. As a pilot you do not want to belong to an aviation company that operates this way. As a professional myself, I would raise a big stink If I even sensed it was going on and I would defend you to the bitter end. I think, after working 7 years here, if this was going on, and as close as I've been to the action, if I can't even sense that this company does it, then they must do the best job of blinding and hiding it than I could ever fathom. Get real.
I wouldn't think otherwise if it wasn't for the QOL and contentment of EJM, NJI and other non-bargaining employees. Right, you simply wouldn't be able to trust the company (as someone else pointed out) if you had no proof that they were even trustworty with non-union pilots. The whole point is - there is proof and it's blatantly obvious that the company does treat non-bargaining employees well.
Asking for higher wages for your family is completely legitimate, but risking it all for the slim, and I mean SLIM chance that the company will give in to all your demands, in my mind, is akin to gambling it all away. That's why striking comes across as just being punitive at that point so you can hurt the company back for hurting you.
How about responsibility, values and morality? Some things aren't worth the price you are willing to pay, you may not see that now, but some day you will. Before you start blaming the company for not having responsibility, values and morality, keep in mind, you are only responsible for yourself and your family.
I make more than pilots? The fact that you would even say this speaks directly to the fact that you are willing to make decisions without factual data followed by a public statement based off pure speculation. You integrity is in serious doubt.
De-valuing my worth as an employee and then speaking on behalf of 2000 other people only further deteriorates your credibility.
By the way, do you really want your worth judged by the size of your paycheck?
Pilots have been disciplined for calling in fatigued. Safety Culture???????
Try waking at 4:00am and getting shut off at noon and being told you have a 9:00am local show the next day just to be called out just passed legal, yes, 12:00 midnight. Ok, those are the regs, had our 12 hours lets go to work. Since we started before 4:00am we do not have to work more than 10 hours. Simple right? Try having an ACP threaten your job, then the CP threaten your job, then have me call their bluff and they back down. How many people at NJA stand up for themselves? Not that many. Safety culture my arse. I was later called in because I called their bluff. As for leaving, trust me we are all trying. Working with your mentality is not how I want to spend the rest of my career. As for making a big stink, it was done. What does the company do about it? Nothing as usual but you probably already know that. You must be fooking clueless to not see what is going on.
Wages. Well since you think we have a slim chance of getting a descent contract we might as well give up now. I suppose you never worked for anything substantial, except mediocracy again, so how could you possibly understand what we are doing. If the company can't afford to pay reasonable wages for what we do then, yeah, they shouldnt be in business. I truly hope the place goes out of business. Don't even bother responding.
Settling for for the contract the corrupt former MEC and the company agreed to would be irresponsible and imoral since it had very little value. That contract had us taking a PAY CUT. I would be doing my wife and children a disservice if I voted yes on that contract. I would be irresponsible of me to not fight to the very end for a better contract. NJA still hasnt made an offer that would pay us more than a regional airline captain.
A first officer makes $27,000 dollars a year. They wont make more than $32,000 dollars no matter how long they are here. You do and will make more than that in 1/4 the time, heck a captain starts at $37,500.
Again, you have no idea what you are talking about. You listen to Boisture and his spin and accept it as gospel. Your character and blind faith speaks to cult like following, lemmings and mass suicide.
Boisture will tell you that our contract was incredible because he generously offered a 12% raise when you will only see a 3-4% raise per year. Open your eyes for a sec. A 12% raise to what we are making now didnt even make us the highest paid fractional pilot. Boisture and the sales staff tout us as the largest, safest and most well trained. The sales people have the audacity to tell customers we make as much as airline pilots.
Take a moment, step back from the computer, ram your head into a wall a few times and once the fog clears and the headache goes away we will welcome you back to reality.
Before you do this make sure you go back to your little crew ops site and read Bositures latest spin on company finances. I want you to see how broke the company is. I want you to read how the company pays out to the pilots over 100 million dollars a year and how the pilots want more than 200 hundred. I want you to soak all that information in so that once your have resinded your legendary lemming status you will realize that 50% of nothing is still nothing.
Since you are up there in the puzzle palace everyday go and ask Boisture something. In all seriousness go ask him how much the company brings in a year. Ask him how much NJA has at the end of the year. Ask him where it all goes and that is the part he wont tell the union. Any idiot can take a set of numbers and spin them in the direction he or she wants. Most people don't like figures or fractions so, like you, they rarely delve further to crunch the numbers.
Lastly, we have done the service. Its time for NJA to pay us. If it can't then I pray every night it wont be around much longer. The days of feeling priviledged to work for a company like NJA are long gone. NJA is lucky to has us. We come to work, operate the machinery safely and efficiently and provide spectacular customer service. NJA tells us we are draining the company and that the business model is flawed, or competition is tight. If we have 75% of the market share how are things really. We are already more expensive than our competitors yet customers flock to NJA becuase, say it with me class, we operate the machinery safely and efficiently and provide spectacular customer service.
As for the last part of your statement.....please tell me you have better!
