Originally Posted by
Thaihawk
This mindset was well in place when I was an apprentice in the 1970s in a manufacturer of aircraft equipment in the UK. Office staff had far better T&Cs than the skilled shop floor personnel, and said shop floor personnel could earn more in non-skilled jobs outside the engineering industry. At one point in the company I worked for a fork-lift driver was on better pay than a fully-skilled fitter.
No wonder there is a dearth of personnel in the aviation engineering industry.
And this crap is still going on check some of there adverts on aviationjobsearch €16 an hour for highly skilled fitters for ryanair in Lithuania and €32 for a type rated licensed B737 engineer as you rightly say the T&Cs nowadays are atrocious.