AcarsII
Please don’t misconstrue my comments as an attack on the AOA or the right of cadets to have some form of housing assistance. I’ve been a member of the AOA since I joined CX in 2000. That is not to say that I agree with all their strategies though. The AOA were obliged to help the cadets with their housing claim. That I don’t have a problem with. The cadets though were claiming CX was racially discriminating against them. Unfortunately unless the AOA used the RDO as a legal weapon against CX there really wasn’t a case against them in the first place. It isn’t discriminatory even in places like Australia to have different remuneration packages based on your recruitment stream. The company, after smelling blood have turned that argument around to potentially force degraded COS on a large number of existing DE pilots and all new pilots irrespective of there recruitment stream. This certainly wasn’t the intended outcome we wanted but one I am sure the company thought through very carefully. Dealing with the company is like playing chess. You must anticipate your opponents move and be ready to outflank them. This requires always being three or four steps ahead of them though, something we a very bad at.