We all talk about food stamp wages, but this is a good read

[HVYMETALDRVR]

Voting with your feet is the only vote that matters in the regional world.

This, and that's what I did.

 

[jynxyjoe]

But only if you're a type A sociopath, who has had multiple sexual partners. In order to mask his glaring soul sucking shame, and low self-esteem related issues!

Who's scruffy looking?

This, and that's what I did.

Me too

 

[Bonanzaman]

I don't think someone offering a job with low wages is nearly as crazy as someone who accepts said low paying job and then has a problem with it.

 

[FL350]

You have the ability to personally strike at any moment. Vote with your feet.

This^

Sadly it seems that employees have forgotten that they are the most valuable resource to company. And if you don't think you are, then vote with your feet and prove it. The longer we have pilots accepting these wages, the longer the situation will go on. The executives and bean counters have realized that pilots (or whomever the employee is) will keep working for low wages so they are going to keep paying low wages as long as they can get away with it. It's pure greed, and it's part of human nature.

So why don't we start being productive and coming up with ideas on how to fix the situation? Unions are supposed to be helping, but progress is obviously slow.. what else can be done?

 

[HVYMETALDRVR]

Without getting into a big long rant... nothing really. It's supply vs demand, I believe in capitalism and I also believe you are what you negotiate. My big malfunction with aviation is that the laws of supply demand are slanted and even where there is somewhat of a demand for pilots, management ferociously attacks the system and wants to change the laws instead of playing the game like pilots are forced too. It's not like the airlines don't have their highest margins ever or anything.

Truck drivers are making good money right now because a lot of them are medicalling out or retiring. Lawyers OTOH (with some exceptions) are working for peanuts, because all the law schools were filled to the gills in the 90s and early 2000s and there's a flood of them.

Fast food workers? It's well within they're right to unionize but they're easily replaceable by either new young kids who don't care or automation. Also fast food is currently cheaper (though still more convient) than shopping and eating at home. If they go too far and a Dollar menu cheeseburger now costs $7.50 in a place like Cheyenne, Wyoming, or Dayton, Ohio? I suspect most locals will just make a salad or sandwich at home. Simple economics.

 

[JOEFRIDAY2]

That's good. Glad to see you make some money. However, do you know the book is being bought by the non-pilot "public" ?

Perhaps the book is being purchased by airline executives that are trying to buy up all of the e-books to keep them away from the public?

A lot of people shop on Amazon. That would include pilots and non-pilots.

Joe