Sure, the senior guys will tell you how hard they had it back during 9/11 with furloughs and then years of low pay, but guess what, they bitched about the same things I’m bitching about back then. The senior pilots make 350K-600K a year, while the junior ones make half that while doing more flying and longer work days. Since everything goes by seniority, including monthly schedule bids, yearly vacation, open trip assignments, and yearly training, the senior pilots get the best of life while having the benefit of choosing all the best schedules, vacation, open trips and training dates. I’m 50% at my airline, and I’m here to tell you that the top 10% of pilots at any airline, no matter what Union, are the ones who ruin the industry. Management sucks, ALPA sucks, and I’m sure SWAPS sucks too. It is no surprise that WN labor relations are so bad right now and they won’t get better until the company is either willing to make long-term cost increase commitments or get their revenues back to levels that can support those employee compensation increases. Given how costly the Christmas disaster was to WN’s finances, the company is trying desperately to not spend money until revenue recovers – which is hard to do given that there is still an apparent bookaway effect from at least some WN customers. Given that every one of the big 4 is negotiating their pilot contract FIRST with the rest of the employees coming after based on the amount of increase that is necessary to gain pilots – no airline is willing to allow the percentage compensation gap between pilots and other employees to grow – EVERY WN employee wants the company to settle its pilot contract.ĭelta’s contract vote is heading to a conclusion next week and is widely expected to handedly pass – which means the bill for other airlines will increase dramatically.ĭelta has already provided investor guidance reflecting its union and non-union employee pay increases while no other airline has done so or can because they do not even have agreements that labor can vote on for most employee groups. I don’t know the details of each meeting between WN and its pilots’ union but there is probably more frustration at WN w/ the contract negotiation process than there is at even AA and UA, the latter of which has to at least partially blame their own elected union officials. You are missing the point that the only meeting that the pilots want the company to attend is negotiating sessions with the union for a new contract. “It’s pretty simple, mate, you’re sitting here making judgments about your fellow countryman who are exercising their legal rights to seek better pay and conditions and you are too weak and scared to even ask for a pay rise yourself. “Well, if you’re good at your job and I assume you are, who don’t you ask for a pay rise?” “But do you think you are worth more than your current pay?” “It doesn’t work like that in the company.” But when was the last time you even attempted to ask your boss for any rise?” “And you resent these workers attempting to negotiate within their legal rights to enter collective bargaining whilst the employer stonewalls the negotiation, do you?” There’s poor productivity holding the country back. “Yeah – the crane rates in Botany are less than Singapore. “So, mate, you think you know what the real issue is, do you?” The company wants equivalent productivity to recently built SE Asian ports, but local port not equipped to for such crane rates and wants workers to take the fall. A group is in discussion on recent news items about some dockworker unionists seeking to protect their pay and working conditions.
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