I've been reading both sides of the argument and I understand where both sides are coming from. While I see the "union" doesn't want to give in to the company and they want the voluntary furlough to be offered to everybody, I don't necessarily agree with their vote. First of all, there are very senior people in PHL and Charlotte who would love to take the furlough with the medical benefits. The company's proposal is not that unreasonable. They were trying to find a win-win but the union didn't want that. Now, nobody gets any medical benefits and a whole bunch of us will either get furloughed or even worse displaced. Now people from all different bases are going to take the furlough which will cause many of us junior people who aren't furloughed to be displaced to other bases where we can't afford to live. I know you senior folks preach about seniority. I see your point. But guess what, reserves have no seniority. NONE! We have nothing! Do you hear me? We have nothing! You all say seniority is the only fair way, but we have no seniority whatsover. So how is that fair? So it's fair for some of you to have seniority rights but not for the rest of us? That makes no sense. Here we are making $1100 a month and always being threatened of being furloughed and displaced. Most of us have been furloughed and displaced numerous times. Now, we once again must face another involuntary furlough or displacement. The company treats us like sh!t. I'm not saying the junior f/as needs are greater than the senior f/a. However, with the furlough the company proposed, even if it did go against our piece of sh!t contract, at least there wouldn't be displacements because more people would most likely take the voluntary furlough and they would take it from the bases where time will be reduced. But, oh, I forget, at US Airways, no one cares about you, especially if you are a puke junior reserve. It's just all about me Miss Senior Sally who's never lived the life of a reserve! There is no concept of morals or doing what is right. It's more like, I only care about myself and will screw you over in a heartbeat just to get what I want then justify it by saying that it's only fair because of seniority. There is nothing fair about throwing one group under the bus just so another group can fully benefit. Of course, I don't even see how the senior group can fully benefit since there are no medical benefits. So, I guess you are happy not only screwing the junior people but also you own senior colleagues. Sure there is a fair way, but the union nor the "membership" would never go for that because we can't have anything that would benefit anybody else. We can't have anything fair because it's all about seniority. If it's fair, then that would be everybody would have a piece of the pie and we can't allow that, now can we?
