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Hogprint said:Ace,
You are correct with the above statement, but why would, say a Flex not pay more and try and bury the competition?
acaTerry said:Please provide me with some examples of the many companies that voluntarily provide a good wage and benefits program for nonunionized employees.
acaTerry said:So why is it so hard to get a raise?
On Your Six said:These comments aren't very helpful - in fact they're pretty condescending. The fact is that NJA pilots have been operating for years without a reasonable and fair contract by any definition - especially when compared to their counterparts flying the same aircraft on the corporate side. Does anyone think paying a Citation X Captain $60K per year is fair - even with the so-called stability and schedule? No sane person would consider that amount fair or reasonable.
On Your Six said:NJA management has not been negotiating in good faith... I know people who have joined NJA with the expectation that the contract would improve to "acceptable" levels - a few have since departed because of the lack of progress.
On Your Six said:Bottom line: NJA will continue to lose some of its more experienced and "safest" pilots if the situation does not improve. JetBlue, AirTran and SWA are ramping up and present themselves as better LONG-TERM career options given NJA's hostile and disrespectful employee environment.
On Your Six said:I wonder how the owners would feel if they knew their many of their pilots were plotting their exit strategies...
If they gave a squat about seeing the same faces in the cockpit every time they flew and wanted to have NBAA compensated flight crews, they'd have their own plane/crew.
Hogprint said:Yeah, I wasn't clear. I guess what I'm asking you is why would the other non-union frax pay just as low wages as NJA if as you say the majority of the industry are paying more?
What I'm hinting at is that this doesn't seem to be a union/non union issue. Piss poor pay is piss poor, no matter how you look at it.
Ace-of-the-Base said:NJA was the first, they set a president and the rest of the frax followed. The majority of the industry (19 and 135) are non-union and pay MORE.
Ace
dsptchrNJA said:A couple weeks ago someone gave up asking how much you are asking for after repeating his question several times - no one would answer.
h25b said:Who the h%ll said I was trying to be helpful ? The militant wing of your union burned the bridge with me and hundreds of others when they started with the scab-list threat for the 135 sell-off flights.
acaTerry said:Pilot pay is now at a nearly all time low. Dollar for dollar, throughout the industry we are making less now than we were 20 years ago.
NetJets' problems are not pilot induced---ask the owners. QUOTE]
Until you get people to refuse to PFT and not work for sub standard wages such as the regionals and even NJA, cargo or any other flying job, you will never stop seeing low wages for pilots. If anyone thinks that they will see the money pilots were making 20 years ago or even pre 9/11, they are sadly mistaken. While there are still good paying flying jobs out there, the reality is unfortunately the reality. You see people posting on here all the time stating that pilots are "whores" and they are right.
acaTerry said:Well, sour grapes seems to sum it all up....
acaTerry said:Please take some of your six-figure pay and get a spelling lesson. The word is PRECEDENT!
acaTerry said:Well, sour grapes seems to sum it all up....
El Chupacabra said:Did you make more spelling errors in the last post just to see if he'd catch them?
Obviously. Hear Here.Ace-of-the-Base said:Spelling can be corrected by a computer. Ignorant usage cannot.
Ace
FalconPilot69 said:acaTerry said:Pilot pay is now at a nearly all time low. Dollar for dollar, throughout the industry we are making less now than we were 20 years ago.
NetJets' problems are not pilot induced---ask the owners. QUOTE]
Until you get people to refuse to PFT and not work for sub standard wages such as the regionals and even NJA, cargo or any other flying job, you will never stop seeing low wages for pilots. If anyone thinks that they will see the money pilots were making 20 years ago or even pre 9/11, they are sadly mistaken. While there are still good paying flying jobs out there, the reality is unfortunately the reality. You see people posting on here all the time stating that pilots are "whores" and they are right.
Falcon,
This brings up an interesting quandary. I have seen this argument, especially on this board, for over five years.
How do you keep people trying to break into this industry to refuse sub standard wages? I think most of us in the beginning had to settle for a sub standard wage just to get our hours unless you came out of the military and jumped into the right seat of a major.
Am I wrong about this? If anyone has any exceptions please post them.