PSA walking off

[Travelpro72]

just heard from a friend who's an agent in PIT that the PSA agents and baggage handlers are walking off the job because of the raise they were given of 7 cents. Anyone hear anything about this?

 

[Flying Titan]

I hope it's not true, but if it is, I guess it's understandable that people would be upset. I suppose it's better than a pay CUT...but...it's kinda like leaving a waitress a seven-cent tip -- probably more insulting than leaving nothing at all.

 

[Robc98]

Pilot mentioned somthing about agents in PIT walking off job earlier today as he was going thru our city....didnt get details though

 

[wings396]

7 Cents is not a raise, it is an Insult...
It's about time that someone took a stance against the Express operators and their Poverty level wages. If the bar had been raised by these people years ago, you would not have seen the "Expressing" of the Indusrty... :down:

 

[SegmentKing]

well their contract governs the raises....

.... so.....

do we blame management or crappy union leaders? I mean, the contract has two signatures on it, correct?

 

[desertgal]

Are they union?
Did they vote for this?

 

[Prince of PAWOBs]

well their contract governs the raises....

.... so.....

do we blame management or crappy union leaders? I mean, the contract has two signatures on it, correct?

It wasn't a raise per se. It is what the company is offering its employees during contract negotiation. Seven cents is all PSA can afford to give as a raise in the new contract, according to the company.

Segment, you seem to have a problem with PSA's customer service agents and the IBT local that represents them. Maybe you could share with the rest of us why you hold them in such low regard.

 

[Prince of PAWOBs]

Airport Gate Agents Stage Walkout

 

[john john]

Well Well do you think things will start to get moving at the negotiating table. Good not plan not organized event. Some of you wish you had the BALLS

 

[757fixer]

Its still better than the 5 cents the IAM got for the US mechanics a few years ago.

 

[RedOne]

It's better than the "your station may be outsourced" that the IAM got F/S in their contract. Oh, and IAM helped it happen to 22 or so stations. (and I know 700.... this was presented to and radified by "the membership"......while the IAM stood by and did nothing I might add. The facts didn't get in my way!!!)
.
GO IAM 😀 😀 (Out the door that is)

 

[SegmentKing]

I do not care for the IBT at PSA. They are only worried about PIT and screw the outstations over and over. The last contract was strongarmed by the union in PIT, and told the new hires in PIT not to vote for the contract because they wanted better cap-outs for the senior mama's....

amazing that in the last IBT vote, over 90% of the employees in the outstations voted FOR the contract, yet PIT rejected it by 90%...

I have nothing wrong with unions in general, just lame ones (such as AMFA/NW and the IBT at JS, "AFA" for MAA, etc).

Unfortunately, it is only a matter of time before PSA relinquishes control of PIT to Piedmont, just as they've done in AGS, AVL, EYW, and a few other stations. Maybe the union members should have thought about that one... the EN payscale isn't much, but they're non-union, so the union leaders will be out of a job, or at most their union pay.

 

[jimntx]

Unless the PIT area is really different from other parts of the country these days, the truly sad part about this insult is that if the people who walked off the job get fired, there will be a traffic-blocking line of applicants at the airport the day the jobs are advertised by the company.

I was talking to a flight attendant (senior, top of scale) who was whining about our concessions (3 years ago! You'd think that ship had sailed by now!) cutting her hourly rate from something like $50/hr to $43hr. I suggested she go to an open house for one of the regional carriers when they are advertising starting f/a jobs at $13-17/hr.

They usually just set up in a hotel in the area and advertise that they will accept applicants until the room seating is all taken. They ALWAYS end up turning people away. It even happens for the more mainline type airlines also. I have a friend who is a f/a and recruiter at Frontier. That has happened at their last 2 open houses. They had people in tears because they couldn't get into the room.

 

[28yrsnojob]

🙄 its about time they stood up to usairways management.they should all walk for what they get paid .

 

[john john]

They usually just set up in a hotel in the area and advertise that they will accept applicants until the room seating is all taken. They ALWAYS end up turning people away. It even happens for the more mainline type airlines also. I have a friend who is a f/a and recruiter at Frontier. That has happened at their last 2 open houses. They had people in tears because they couldn't get into the room.

There’s always somebody willing to do jobs for less that the one doing them fact of life. That is why you negotiate. the stakes just got higher