Comment: The heck with harassing the pilots and questioning their salaries - what about continuing bad management? How can ANY manager justify allowing ANY contract negotiations with ANY employee group to continue for 12 years? Thousands of PAID man-hours - on both sides - wasted in pursuit of "teaching the employee who is in charge". For representation purposes it is reasonable for LIAT to pay managers and employees to be at a negotiating table... but NOT for 12 years!!!!
I ask that the Board send in an independent auditor to assess what this major decade-long exercise in time-wasting has cost the airline, who ordered the on-going procrastination, terminate those in management who were responsible, and ensure that it does not happen again.
The pilots went on a sick out, not because of salary, but because of being finally out of a contract after 12 years of negotiation. 10 years would have been unreasonable... 5 years would have been unreasonable... heck, 2 years would have been unreasonable. What was LIAT management thinking?
Caribbean management as a whole encourage waste because they think they have to prove they have the upper hand in order to get savings. But in fact when industrial action becomes a reality because workers become fed up they do exactly the opposite.
When you harass the pilots you are harassing the wrong group, people... see your MP or Prime Minister and DEMAND that LIAT management change their approach to industrial relations.
That's where the problem lies - remember, LIAT pilots patiently had restraint for the last 12 years to avoid this, and now you want to beat them up for having decided enough was enough? Not fair. And that's not competent management!! |