DHL pilot alleges poor labor practices that are spreading throughout industry
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#2Not entirely sure what he's talking about. Seems like he should have a word with Southwestern Air instead of blaming DHL and Amazon.
While they undoubtedly contribute, putting all the blame on their shoulders seems a bit silly.
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#3I wish there was a little bit more detail on what laws are bypassed. Unfortunately I'm also a little put off by the emphasise on averting foreign influence. Regulations against foreign carriers operating in the US were always uncomfortable to me.
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#4Summary of article: I want more money.
Why do cargo planes even need pilots? He isn't likely to get more money - instead his job is likely to be automated away.
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#5There aren't really any facts here just pure emotion that you would hear in any industry where costs are cut. I've no idea how fairly these pilots are paid. But surely there are regulations about pilot rest just like on commercial flights. And a pilot cannot really pull heart strings about being away from home when they chose that line of work where your job is literally to be away from home all the time.
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#6Amazon is making life difficult for the USPS as well...forced them to work on Sundays. They definitely have leverage.
That said, most everyone at USPS is probably quite happy that Amazon is helping their business thrive when it had been floundering for years. USPS folks are also not working marathon hours like these pilots, except at Christmas, but they've been doing that for decades.
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#7The dividing line in jobs nowadays seems to be headquarters or operations, brain or hands. If you're in operations, you are already or will be optimized to the extent possible and permitted. Not pretty, but the modus operandi.
Pilots are part of operations and not different to drivers or cleaning staff, even if they still consider themselves part of an elite.
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#8Meaningless post, the only concrete example is:
> For example, my colleagues and I have been asked to sit on 14-hour flights from the UW to the Middle East, only to then fly the same aircraft to Asia on another nine-hour journey
Which is a lot to __ask__ for. Wasn't the company willing to pay overtime wages? I'm not a pilot, but to me it sounds like that's a pretty much unavoidable issue in the industry and the pilots are compensated heavily for this overtime, aren't they?
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#9Hot topic in The Netherlands right now is the threat of a hostile takeover of Akzo Nobel, a chemical company with 50,000 employees, by a US company. The government is discussing putting the same protective regulations in place that Trump is threatening with. The US isn't "losing" jobs to Germany, they are trade partners. If Americans want to stop trading then both sides lose.
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#10I thought that with all the safety regulations, cargo pilots were doing more or less the same number of hours that passengers pilots. In fact I read previously that pay was now pretty much aligned between the two, and that this previously unpopular profession among pilots was attracting increasing interest.