OK, so no one should go work at MAA, they should live off unemployment (similar pay for some groups) instead. Yup, that will really show US Airways. Its not like they have 8 or so other Express carriers that pay even worse that they could easily use.
And whoever talked about the good wages at JetBlue needs to do a little research. I've seen people take mock heart attacks when they hear about MDA's work rules, but they are common with most of the industry, JetBlue included.
I'm all for fighting for our professions. You people say you are but you're not. You're about fighting for YOURSELF. As long as you have yours and can hang onto your expectation, who cares about anyone else. You'll sell out your co-workers, sell out the other work groups, take repeated concessions but never leave because of your seniority and the knowlege that you'll never make the same again somewhere else, even with the same seniority. Then you are angry at people for coming to work. You say your jobs have been turned into Wal*Mart jobs... they have, at the other end of the scale that you didnt care about. Can that be changed? Hopefully, since we are such a safety and service oriented industry, with little room for low-quality workers. Blaming or ridiculing people for doing the airline thing will get you nowhere, especially if your own dumbass is still doing the same job. The best thing you can do is educate people and look at the whole big picture and improve it, not just yourself. When you go, your paychecks go with you. You turned your back, and lowered the bar.
Where was all of the outrage when Mesa Airlines was allowed to bring its sweatshop operation into US Airways? And all of the other fleabag contract carriers? Where was the outrage when US Airways went from 11,000 F/As to 5,400 in a matter of months, while the unions were agreeing to increasing CONTRACT RJ flying from 70 jets to hundreds of them while the Airways employees were on the street for three years?
It seems most of you were fine with 40% of the airlines employees being on the street, while the airline became a franchise for every RJ operator in the nation. Did you think of them, keep them in your thoughts? No, you didnt. At least not when you voted.
No one seemed to mind the outsourced RJs but now everyones upset about the new mainline division thats bringing back the junior mainline folks. Could it be that people realize they created thier own enemy? A lower paid, willing, more junior workforce with the same EXACT qualifications and experience as you?
Airline employees are unbelievable sometimes. :down:
