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[gunfyter]

We are locked in till 2016 anyway.... I would be shocked if negotiations opened up before then and we got raises when they don't have to....

By then we are talking a whole different economy.

 

[Semore Butts]

Well said. Most of us will be happy just to maintain our current contract.

I think you're speaking for "most" of yourself.

Besides money, there are alot of issues that need to be addressed on the next contract, whenever that may be?

I.E. FO pay over 10 years? Scheduling? (Just to name a couple)

Jeez man, wake up!

"Most of us".......That's laughable.

 

[BentOver]

Try one impatient one whom can't read. Who said negotiate a contract in 2010? Nobody said a damn thing stating that?

By 2010 I meant that if IBB didn't pass. The next amendable date to the contract was to start in 2010... Sure IBB could have had some changes in it. But to think we would have gotten a better deal if we waited is highly debatable.....



NJAOwner..FWIW, based on the most recent communications, NJA is not intent on remaining smaller. Whether or not their "plan" works, or if they are competely lying to the group is also debatable. But there are "no intentions" of reducing staffing. I don't 100% believe them, but I'm not about to arbitrarily resign my seniority number either.

All I know is that for around 1000 pilots at NJA (SIC's), IBB was a very good product for us to support. And then there were the other PIC's that passed it with an astounding majority. If it had not passed, our SIC's would all be making much less than they are now, and most would have had to commute to 1 of 5 bases up until maybe last year. The whole reason for IBB was to curtail the attrition of SIC's because they had such a ********************ty deal from '05 and earlier.

 

[gret]

I think you're speaking for "most" of yourself.

Besides money, there are alot of issues that need to be addressed on the next contract, whenever that may be?

I.E. FO pay over 10 years? Scheduling? (Just to name a couple)

Jeez man, wake up!

"Most of us".......That's laughable.

...and the mere thought of lay-offs, buyouts, and parking a/c was laughable not too many years ago.

Owners leaving in droves, those remaining unhappy, and really no new a/c in almost 4 years....is that laughable too?

 

[Semore Butts]

...and the mere thought of lay-offs, buyouts, and parking a/c was laughable not too m

Don't know where you got that from my post?

So, you think that most pilots are satisfied with the contract?

 

[KiddDynomite]

You guys crack me up! Off the deep end, that's funny. Read what is being said and stop twisting things. I am not so high up on the captain's list as you think. In fact I am worried about keeping my seat if things go the way I see it and that is continued shrinking and an eventual downgrade. I voted no on '05 because I thought the FO's were getting screwed and the same in '07. We were at the peak in '05 and could have had about 205 more. That ship came and went. We are going to be in the fight for our lives just to keep what we have and I personally don't care what you think and how rosey the glasses you are looking through are. Reality is a different place and the writing on the wall is clear, NJA is shrinking. RAJ is right on the money with his observation, that the IBB was a tool for two certain somebodies to go to management. You guys are kool-aid drinkers who bought their ilk lock, stock and barrel. They kept the pilot group divided on basing alone. We gave up alot in '07 for raises and basing that could have been had for less. Let me tell you something the great one who went to management only wanted one thing and that was to build an ALPA type union for the fractionals. He was trying to make a name for himself and when it didn't happen quick enough for him he jumped ship after the IBB. That's reality. He should have stuck around a little longer on our side now that CA voted in 1108. I love your assumptions, it really is humorous. When you guys were laughing at NJA I was there fighting to make it a career not just a job. The when you decided to come over and you get shafted you have to attack. I'm sorry that the truth hurts but that's reality. A divisive '05 contract and '07 IBB passed because as usualy pilots voted with their wallets and bird in the hand mentality. If this company continues to shrink the senior guys will sell you out that's just the facts. There's no loyalty and don't fool yourselves thinking there is. These are different times and you need to read them. Oh one other thing I do post my thoughts on the union site because I could care less what you think!

 

[imacdog]

You may but your thoughts are quickly dismissed by others as being in the (very) minority. That is why it doesn't really matter what your opinions are; the pilot group as a whole is not of the same mindset as you.

 

[DAS at 10/250]

KiddD:

Ref your last sentence.

Couldn't care less. Again, it's "couldn't care less".

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[glasspilot]

Maybe he cares a great deal what they think. Then it makes sense that he could care less...

 

[NJAowner]

If I did not know better, I would swear that at least 90% of the posters on the board received an A+ (not even an A) in each of their English classes throughout school. If someone were to make a minor grammatical infraction on this board, dozens flock upon him to point it out. I surely hope that each of you is as diligent and corrective to your fellow pilots when it involves a FAA Reg. infraction by a fellow pilot or company -- that may save lives -- being a grammar policeman will not.

 

[glasspilot]

If I did not know better, I would swear that at least 90% of the posters on the board received an A+ (not even an A) in each of their English classes throughout school. If someone were to make a minor grammatical infraction on this board, dozens flock upon him to point it out. I surely hope that each of you is as diligent and corrective to your fellow pilots when it involves a FAA Reg. infraction by a fellow pilot or company -- that may save lives -- being a grammar policeman will not.

As a pasenger on a corporate airplane I wood think you wood want pilotts that cood spel good and use the inglish lanwidge wel. Mabe not.

 

[NJAowner]

Glass- I do -- but man you guys are relentless. The board acts like a pack of starving hyenas when someone throws them a "grammatical bone".

 

[wacoflyr]

We sit in hotel rooms at night, looking for something new on Netflicks. What else can we do but pick on each other?

 

[rajflyboy]

Kidd won't vote for any contract with concessions and neither will I.

but we are already being told by the pilot leaders about concerns for concessions? Now why would that be? Now why would they even bring it up? Who wants to switch sides this time?

PIC's will be much smarter when voting this time. You few bad sic's posting this crap make the GOOD sic's look bad.

 

[imacdog]

Yep, posting that career pilots at NJA deserve career wages sure makes us look bad.