Spirit Roadshow and TA vote

[bubbers44]

July 23rd according to my former post, talking to one of the MEC reps. It should start a trend hopefully to get everybody getting on track again. With our present white house administration who knows what the future holds. Change, I guess.

 

[ultrarunner]

July 23rd....With our present white house administration who knows what the future holds..

Any wealth you gain in this TA being redistributed, that's what the future holds!

 

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Any wealth you gain in this TA being redistributed, that's what the future holds!

you must be talking about the national political picture. On the Spirit homefront, the inequity remains. We gave all of the gains to the senior Captains, to a narrow group of FO's (to buy their votes) and kept the humongous disparity in the training dept.

Can you believe this? Our Checkairman over ride is more per hour than a first year FO makes for the same hour. First year FO $36. Fifteenth year Captain $175 plus $37.50 override for grand total of $212.50 per hour. And get this, the CA has a higher daily guarantee than a line guy.

Yes, favoritism is alive and well in the Spirit TA.

At least we took care of those greedy FO's who try to fly enough OT to pay for their kids orthodontics.

 

[WayBack]

Feel the ALPO love!
What was the saying Prater coined while working to Spirit pilots to vote in ALPA? "Taking it back"??
I think he meant "take it in the rear".

 

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Feel the ALPO love!
What was the saying Prater coined while working to Spirit pilots to vote in ALPA? "Taking it back"??
I think he meant "take it in the rear".

Spirit was ALPA for ten years before Pratter got elected. Don't blame this on Pratter.

Blame this on a pilot group that elected leaders for the wrong reasons and on leaders who negotiated a contract that: protects the elite and punishes a certain group for being "selfish". "Selfish" being of course a subjective judgment; it is selfish for a junior FO to want to make more than $40K a year, but it is NOT selfish for a senior Capt Checkairman to make more than $200K.

Sounds fair to me:smash:

 

[boomlrd]

Vote No!

 

[bubbers44]

My info is Spirit counts their votes tomorrow. I guess 65%for. What do you think?

 

[PCL_128]

My info is Spirit counts their votes tomorrow. I guess 65%for. What do you think?

I say 70% in favor.

 

[bubbers44]

That would be a landslide in an election vote. Bet you are right.

 

[bubbers44]

HC, Who cares what you make the first year. Nobody in my poverty 750 per month group cared. The next year we were making good pay and loving it. We all retired and are living a good life. We ended up at about what the Spirit guys will make at the end of their contract and that was almost 10 years ago. Think into the future. An Intern doesn't make his bucks until he is the Doctor. That is the way it has always worked.