Ol Shep, that's a very nice analogy and assuming a just and perfect world I would accept it. Let's consider this analogy then;
Long haul flight from A to Destination B. Origin A was not a pleasant overnight at all, there were cockroaches in your bed, overnight allowance was barely enough to cover your expences as they deliberately miscalcualted the exchange rate. Crew meals were below standard as the caterers were not payed well and had a grudge against the company. By the time you got to origin A last night you were at boiling point. (this symolises the eroding FA conditions over the last 8 years)
You complain to the rest of your crew and to your union. Your union pretends to listen, and they pretend that they will help you improve things for your next sector A to B. You wake up get ready for work with optimism that things will get better when. You sign on and are told that there are no crew meals what so ever now, your rest periods are less and there will be one less crew member that you have to work harder for to compensate for them not being there. To add insult to injury you're told you have to work an extra sector when you get to B as your conditions have changed.
You turn to your union who have pretended to be there for you to help fight for just conditions only to be told that the industrial conditions have changed and you can only accept what's given to you.
You ponder the changes in industrial conditions and you also ponder the size of the union and the amount of disenged work crew at work and the significance of their job to the safety of the airline and the travelling public. You conclude that your union is not on your side, your work conditions are getting chipped away more and more each time you sign on and you're getting rewarded less and less. you wonder what your union could do to at least keep your current conditions in tact and you conclude WAIT FOR IT ........ A LOT MORE THAN THEY ARE DOING NOW.
You also ponder why they are not doing anything right now and why they are working to actually CUT our working conditions and make the company more profitable...... and you conclude that .... yes.. someone must be getting a cut from the company to help this get through....
Not being blinded by all this you vote NO to the EBA proposal. and guess what so do 9 out of 10 of your work collegues because they are just as sick of this.
What do the guys who were getting a cut think... oh ok, we don't get our cut now damm, they weren't as dumb as we thought they were.
(to clarify Cut could mean any form of underhanded reward)
O'l shep I think this is a slightly more realistic analogy for you my friend.
Last edited by Brettslave; 5th Apr 2007 at 10:26.