1,221 Reasons Not to work for Southwest
07-31-2023, 11:49 AM
#871
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Joined APC: Sep 2009
Posts: 609
You’ll find everything you need there.
A good indicator for the company’s MO in these/any of their negotiations is their recent move to Un-AIP the contractual maternity policy. They reneged on a previously agreed upon section dealing with maternity leave. Only a slimy FH lawyer would come up with this move. CK isn’t smart enough to generate something like this on his own.
For them to go back on the maternity leave section simply shows how little ‘Luv’ really exists. The company is simply a business. Nothing more. Just focused on Money.
OK, cool.cool.cool……
#SS4Me
Last edited by Hobbit64; 07-31-2023 at 12:00 PM.
08-01-2023, 12:31 AM
#872
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Joined APC: Apr 2022
Posts: 239
08-01-2023, 08:16 AM
#873
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Joined APC: Apr 2022
Posts: 239
Interesting fact…… According to Zippia, a job placement/career improvement website, the following numbers are total employees and the airlines respective number of leadership positions:
American 133,700/58
United 93,000/39
Delta  86,560/74
The drum roll please!
 Southwest 58,803/85!!!!
Interesting, where the smallest by the number of employees with the most leadership positions!
Looks to me like there’s plenty of money to go around !
American 133,700/58
United 93,000/39
Delta  86,560/74
The drum roll please!
 Southwest 58,803/85!!!!
Interesting, where the smallest by the number of employees with the most leadership positions!
Looks to me like there’s plenty of money to go around !
08-01-2023, 09:37 AM
#874
Furloughed Again?!
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: Boeing 737
Posts: 4,804
And if you’re young and think this doesn’t apply to you… try and imagine that you hurt yourself snowboarding, or fall off a ladder hanging Christmas lights..
Some injury that keeps you out of the cockpit for several years. You will not only want the company to provide for you at or near your current rates of pay but ALSO continue to contribute to your retirement. This isn’t just an “old guy “ issue. It’s important to all of us.
08-01-2023, 05:07 PM
#875
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Joined APC: Nov 2021
Posts: 202
Another reason not to work for this dumpster fire:
SWAPA just announced today that in July we had the highest number and highest percentage of fatigue calls per 10,000 duty periods on record ever in the history of SWA.
"Pilot quality of life is of no benefit to the Company" - SWA SME
SWAPA just announced today that in July we had the highest number and highest percentage of fatigue calls per 10,000 duty periods on record ever in the history of SWA.
"Pilot quality of life is of no benefit to the Company" - SWA SME
08-01-2023, 05:39 PM
#876
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Joined APC: Apr 2013
Posts: 3,651
Another reason not to work for this dumpster fire:
SWAPA just announced today that in July we had the highest number and highest percentage of fatigue calls per 10,000 duty periods on record ever in the history of SWA.
"Pilot quality of life is of no benefit to the Company" - SWA SME
SWAPA just announced today that in July we had the highest number and highest percentage of fatigue calls per 10,000 duty periods on record ever in the history of SWA.
"Pilot quality of life is of no benefit to the Company" - SWA SME
Throw in some planned 10 hour duty days, add some delays and mix with a dash of summer weather. Serve over a plate of ****ed off pilots.
I can't sleep right with these schedules. Nobody should be up before 4am. Nobody should be ending their day at 4am unless that's what they originally planned to do and got the rest for it.
Pilots who used to help out and fly fatigued just aren't doing it any more. It ages you terribly and it does our customers and families a disservice.
I have to go to bed now. I have a 4:05am van. Wish I was kidding.
08-01-2023, 05:53 PM
#877
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Joined APC: Jun 2006
Position: American Airlines Brake Pad Replacement Technician
Posts: 476
Do you want a 3 AM alarm clock, or to be going to sleep at 3 AM.
You decide.
The reality of the SWA schedule.
And yet, still mystified at why fatigue calls are at new all time record highs?
You decide.
The reality of the SWA schedule.
And yet, still mystified at why fatigue calls are at new all time record highs?
08-01-2023, 10:29 PM
#878
At your mom's house
Joined APC: Jun 2008
Position: cpt 737
Posts: 2,797
It's not sustainable for me personally. I can not do this for 20+ more yrs. Imagine if fatigued calls paid whatever we were awarded/scheduled? They'd be way higher.
I'd think an ASAP with every fatigue report might change things.
08-02-2023, 08:38 AM
#879
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Posts: 202
Another reason NOT to work for SWA:
(NYSE 8/2/23: LUV) Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $.18 per share to Shareholders of record at the close of business on September 6, 2023, on all shares then issued and outstanding. The quarterly dividend will be paid on September 27, 2023.
Shareholders first, employees last. Not the Herb way.
In 2006. LUV dividends were .45 CENTS per share. Today, Gary and the Board has increased them to 18 CENTS/ share. 40 TIMES higher… yet our salaries and benefits haven’t grown at that rate. We are still getting payed what was negotiated in 2016.
(NYSE 8/2/23: LUV) Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $.18 per share to Shareholders of record at the close of business on September 6, 2023, on all shares then issued and outstanding. The quarterly dividend will be paid on September 27, 2023.
Shareholders first, employees last. Not the Herb way.
In 2006. LUV dividends were .45 CENTS per share. Today, Gary and the Board has increased them to 18 CENTS/ share. 40 TIMES higher… yet our salaries and benefits haven’t grown at that rate. We are still getting payed what was negotiated in 2016.
08-02-2023, 12:06 PM
#880
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Joined APC: Jun 2006
Position: American Airlines Brake Pad Replacement Technician
Posts: 476
The sooner our pilot group realizes
There's no putting the SWA monetization of SWA labor's goodwill back in the box.
The better off that SWA Labor and the Company will be on the way ahead.
Management (term used loosely) requires a power on reset badly that in my opion only mechs and pilots workgroups have future will and future RLA capability to do.
All future "culture" will be crew and small teams level driven.
There's no going back. New time, New song.
Not intending to chastise, but rather stimulate and encourage critical thought.
There's no putting the SWA monetization of SWA labor's goodwill back in the box.
The better off that SWA Labor and the Company will be on the way ahead.
Management (term used loosely) requires a power on reset badly that in my opion only mechs and pilots workgroups have future will and future RLA capability to do.
All future "culture" will be crew and small teams level driven.
There's no going back. New time, New song.
Not intending to chastise, but rather stimulate and encourage critical thought.
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