Sign Petition Removing Cargo Exemption

[HA25]

No actually I am not. I am just the opposite. I like having my time off. I just don't understand why I want to work more days for the same amount of pay. Back to my original question... What are the bigger issues that I am missing? Another just as plausible senerio is that we enter an era of hyper inflation (when we have to pay back all of these loans) and the airlines cut back tremendously and the govt. caves on the rules anyway. No one can predict the future. Again, be careful what you wish for as you may get it... Happy New Year..gotta go get into a limo and onto Amsterdam......OH NOOOOOOOO its 0125 east coast time.....I am melting.....all of this "back side of the clock" is killing meeeeeeee! (of course resting for an additional X amount of hours would some how fix the clock?)

I'm confused.. so you enjoy getting your body beat to crap for a few extra bucks in your pocket? Why not just make a better hourly wage and live a few years past your 65 retirement instead?

 

[ttuite]

Metrodriver: I see your point and can see where the abuse can take place. Not flying a classic I have not experienced these problems. I just don't agree that more legislation is the answer. Perhaps these problems can be solved on a local level in each companies contract. My company so far has not seen fit to put me through what you describe. If they were to start to happen, I would hope that my union would be able to negotiate the issues in the next contract.

Fms: In my last profession I worked all three shifts sometimes in the span of a week. I was "working" the entire time and other than when I hung out at the donut shop I had to be at my full attention lest I be sued or worse be hurt. I have had countless times when I caught a case only to be not returning to my bed for 24 or 36 hours and that is without advance warning. Put yourself through 20 years of that and then come and tell me how hard this is on your body. I am happy to say that this profession is much better. I work with great people who are proficient in what they do, get plenty of time off and get paid fairly well. What they ask of me is what they told me they would ask of me when they interviewed me. So they beat my body up a little sometimes, it is a small price to pay for the privledge of working in this profession. I let my union speak for me and when they suggest that I lobby for better work rules then I will. Until then, I would prefer that the union negotiate the work rules for me. I had enough of goverment people, who don't have a clue what is important, making up rules that effect me daily.
This is just MY opinion and you know the saying....opinions are like....

 

[NJAPLT]

Signed and posted the link in a couple of places for others.

 

[MD11Drvr]

TTuite,

I hear what you're saying about more government and agree but in this case I am not sure I will wait on my union to express a voice on the matter. Too often it seems the unions are like our politicians in that they are for sale to the highest bidder. Unfortunantly the membership is not always the highest bidder. The carrier I work for does both cargo and pax so the next thing we will see is denied a bidline because we are on cargo rules so we can't fly pax. There needs to be one standard for rest rules as we are all human.