WillowRunVortex
Former Sleepless Knight
- Joined
- Dec 30, 2004
- Posts
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NWA Wants....WHAT?
At this point it all depends on where NWA ALPA's true motivation lies. If they have any foresight they will protect jobs. If the "400 club" is steering NWA ALPA's decisions to protect pensions at all cost, any future for junior or prospective mainline flying is history.
As someone else on this board pointed out, if management gets mainline pilot numbers low enough you guys will be the next AMFA in your future contract negotiations.
On another note, the senior Fa's are gonna get a 25% pay cut. The junior Fa's are gonna get 7%. Plus the PFAA will lose about half of their ranks to outsourcing (Asian nationals for $8 bucks an hour with no benefits). <-On this point doesn't an American Flag Carrier have a moral responsibility to the people of the flag it flies under? A junior FA starts out at $16,000. Now she will make 14,880 (before taxes). Who on God's green earth would work that job for $14,880?
Can a person survive on that? Even living like a college student?
Can't a person make like $27,000 full time at McDonalds? Have a schedule and be home every night.
At this point it all depends on where NWA ALPA's true motivation lies. If they have any foresight they will protect jobs. If the "400 club" is steering NWA ALPA's decisions to protect pensions at all cost, any future for junior or prospective mainline flying is history.
As someone else on this board pointed out, if management gets mainline pilot numbers low enough you guys will be the next AMFA in your future contract negotiations.
On another note, the senior Fa's are gonna get a 25% pay cut. The junior Fa's are gonna get 7%. Plus the PFAA will lose about half of their ranks to outsourcing (Asian nationals for $8 bucks an hour with no benefits). <-On this point doesn't an American Flag Carrier have a moral responsibility to the people of the flag it flies under? A junior FA starts out at $16,000. Now she will make 14,880 (before taxes). Who on God's green earth would work that job for $14,880?
Can a person survive on that? Even living like a college student?
Can't a person make like $27,000 full time at McDonalds? Have a schedule and be home every night.