Well gents, what are we gonna do to get the guys in the front office to finally pay us what we are worth?
Its been told to some guys in our hangar by the V.P. of Maintenance that quote "If we're here and motivated by greed, I hope to see all of you push your boxes out the door!"
Now if this is the attitude of managers all over, we are in for a long hard fight. Unfortunately, I dont think a lot of my co-workers are up for it.
We're not union here and for some unknown reason the guys wont vote one in. I think most are scared that they will lose the 4 on 3 off schedule they have and that the raises wont amount to anything much but will be eaten up in dues. So we continue on making it day by day as more leave our ranks.
I have heard from the CEO directly that we are NOT one of the majors and we wont pay what they do.
So what are the guys like me do, who have been here for several years and have enough senority to hold dayshift with weekends off?
Management here has a take it or leave it attitude. We have guys leaving the aviation field all together to work on Forklift trucks in a warehouse making several more dollars per hour than they were making here.
I would have left already, but for medical reasons and the lack of insurance right way at the prospective companies, I have to stay put.
For those who are interested, Aviation Week and Space Technology had a few articles a while back, on the impending MX crisis. I will email them to anyone who asks. They are quite long to be posted here...
Its quite interesting and raises some good questions for the guys in the suits...
Maybe when they have to start parking airplanes because their is no one to work on them, will the come around...
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