Tmflyer:
>However since the terms of the Last Offer apparently were favorable
>enough so that 'many'? pilots voted to accept them 'with their feet'
>as new terms of employment, I see Aclark's question as very germane…..
Well Sir, I beg to differ. Two of the New Mexico pilots quit the union prior to us receiving any new salary and benefits information. Another quit because he felt he wasn’t getting timely or pertinent information from the union. And the last one decided he wouldn’t strike “because the bible told him not to”, so he quit as well after telling me it wasn’t about the money (the money he would make working over). The last pilot was unsupportive of the union even though he was a member. I don’t know when he quit ref the information package we received. Not one of these pilots voiced an opinion one way or the other as to the package offered up by the company, some not even having seen it.
If this is any indication, pilots are just fearful of loosing their jobs – just the mindset the company wants them in as evidenced by the paperwork (via FedEx no less – how much does that cost, times hundreds of pilots?) that seems to be coming to my door.
Respectfully,
Ron Powell
PHI Air Medical
Albuquerque NM