SkyWest Pay Proposal Rejected!!!

[sunlitpath]

It's nice that Skywest management makes their little pilots feel like they are in a union. Free peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for everyone, but don't take any home for your kids; it's too expensive.

 

[sunlitpath]

Dear Skywest Pilots,

Stop posing and pretending. Join the Atlantic Southeast-ExpressJet alliance. We could be an unstoppable force for pilot compensation and quality of life work rules.

 

[tiffanytaylor]

Dear Comair pilots, you're out of a job soon because you're too expensive!!!!!!!

 

[OARfan]

You take the money and keep trying for the union. Jerry is laughing right now, who thinks we are actually negotiating or that we'll get something different a year from now?

 

[sunlitpath]

Getting something in writing without real lagally binding contractual protection is a monumental waste of time and energy. Jerry won't laugh so much when his pilots are majority union. That day is coming soon.

 

[sunlitpath]

Dear Comair pilots, you're out of a job soon because you're too expensive!!!!!!!

Comair is contractually expendable. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Skaff]

Hehe, how do you propose that we join your management mandated alliance?

Dear Skywest Pilots,

Stop posing and pretending. Join the Atlantic Southeast-ExpressJet alliance. We could be an unstoppable force for pilot compensation and quality of life work rules.

 

[sunlitpath]

hehe, how do you propose that we join your management mandated alliance?

1-800- alpa. Next time the vote comes around, don't be gay, vote yes.

 

[Flyer1015]

Congrats on turning down the payraise. Now that it's been turned down, what's to stop Skywest management from giving ya'll the middle finger and saying "well, maybe next year!" and leave you with your current rates.

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No flame, honest question.

 

[CX880]

Congrats on turning down the payraise. Now that it's been turned down, what's to stop Skywest management from giving ya'll the middle finger and saying "well, maybe next year!" and leave you with your current rates.

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No flame, honest question.

Who cares. Do you want these guys to get better paid or what? First you make fun of them for being company yes men and now they say no more and you're questioning that too?

 

[Bako Cap]

1-800- alpa. Next time the vote comes around, don't be gay, vote yes.

That is at least 1.5 to 5 years away. It took ALPA 8 years to try SkyWest again after a 6 vote loss only to lose again by 15%. Former organizers don't want to deal with the hard work just to have their fellow pilots shoot down a union again. The portion of the pilot group who have been most vocal about voting no in the recent pay proposal are the same ones who told me they voted no 3 years ago in the ALPA drive. Those pilots are screaming for an ALPA drive now but don't want to do the work.

Management has no fear of a union on the SkyWest side. They will not negotiate (rework) anything with a union drive in motion. It is in their best interest to drag the next pay proposal out for as long as possible and delay a union drive only to throw us a bone to keep the majority happy.

 

[Bako Cap]

Congrats on turning down the payraise. Now that it's been turned down, what's to stop Skywest management from giving ya'll the middle finger and saying "well, maybe next year!" and leave you with your current rates.

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No flame, honest question.

Nothing, This was done the last time SkyWest voted down a pay proposal (72% no votes, much more than our current 51% no votes). It took over a year for the next proposal and it was worse than the first one. Fear of getting nothing for another year helped it pass.

 

[Bako Cap]

Comair is contractually expendable. Nothing more, nothing less.

All regionals are.....

 

[trip]

Congrats on turning down the payraise. Now that it's been turned down, what's to stop Skywest management from giving ya'll the middle finger and saying "well, maybe next year!" and leave you with your current rates.

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No flame, honest question.

This would be in the company's best interest as a lot can change in 1 yr, like UAL scope, exit Airtran/SWA, rest rules, Mesa success, I don't see much that would bring them back to the table with their pocketbook out.

 

[ex j-41]

Dear Comair pilots, you're out of a job soon because you're too expensive!!!!!!!

No Mesa was too cheap.