This isn't the first time we've heard first-hand accounts of massive companies treating workers like slaves. Amazon is already notorious for the ways it treats its warehouse workers. Once again, upward concentration of wealth in our country has created pressure on the people at the bottom to produce more, more, more. If you don't see the parallels to the time period leading up to the massive workers' rights reforms of the Progressive era - you aren't looking very hard. We seem to have have already forgotten the lessons we learned just a century or so ago.
DHL pilot alleges poor labor practices that are spreading throughout industry
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#32Sounds like you need some socialism in yer country. But I guess tax cuts to companies will help.
Maybe tax cuts to corporations would help. If a company that was previously keeping 65% of profits started keeping 85% due to lower taxes perhaps they would invest some of that in employee pay / benefits / more employees. Of course, they also have the choice to just keep the extra money for themselves.
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#33I 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.
Isn't the regulation there because the US government uses the carriers in time of war to transport their forces?
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#35DHL is doing the same with their workers in Germany (so it's not because Germany has more loose regulations on their workers, I think they are even more strict in maximum hours work time in comparison even to USA). The problem is that this big logistic companies like DHL and Amazon trying to max. their profit and min. their losses without any ethics and with pressure from competitors on the shoulders of their most important employees. Logistic is going mad and it should be better regulated world wide. A lot of people in logistics and postal service are frustrated because of this online trade trend nowadays.
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#36Unionize and do something about it. They are pilots! Well educated individuals. C'mon go help yourselves...
Unions sound nice in theory. But in practice, pilot unions work only for very senior pilots [1]. All other pilots in the union get paid much less and have worse working conditions. The detailed story about the effects of pilot unions: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines [1]: Senior vs junior pilots gap is also the incentive for the airline owner to go bancrupt and start a new airline. So that there…
Company Propaganda writers unionize. Do no longer produce lengthy treaties about how unions destroy companys and are bad for workers, in a infinite race to the bottom against your fellow sellouts. Do no longer pay for the paint needed to hide the facts that lots of other country (VW- Germany for example) have unions who run cooperations together with shareholders. Raise your flag, and together future flags may not be raised, for cheap!
Re: DHL pilot alleges poor labor practices that are spreading throughout industry
#37Unionize and do something about it. They are pilots! Well educated individuals. C'mon go help yourselves...
Unions sound nice in theory. But in practice, pilot unions work only for very senior pilots [1]. All other pilots in the union get paid much less and have worse working conditions. The detailed story about the effects of pilot unions: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines [1]: Senior vs junior pilots gap is also the incentive for the airline owner to go bancrupt and start a new airline. So that there…
Interesting article. Still I think this can be overcome. Maybe there needs to be a "young pilot union" to take over.
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#38That reference about DHL being German doesn't sit nicely with me. Germany is much more socialist than the USA.
Particularly ironic inversion since DHL was formed as a US company to fly bills of lading between San Francisco and Honolulu. Initially they used spare capacity in air passengers' baggage so that the bills would arrive ahead of the actual cargo on ships.
Eventually moved upstream into moving the cargo itself.
DHL == Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn
Re: DHL pilot alleges poor labor practices that are spreading throughout industry
#39Unionize and do something about it. They are pilots! Well educated individuals. C'mon go help yourselves...
Unions sound nice in theory. But in practice, pilot unions work only for very senior pilots [1]. All other pilots in the union get paid much less and have worse working conditions. The detailed story about the effects of pilot unions: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines [1]: Senior vs junior pilots gap is also the incentive for the airline owner to go bancrupt and start a new airline. So that there…
>pilot unions work only for very senior pilots
Then bargain for different terms and conditions for junior pilots? There is no "one" way that unions work.
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#40During back-to-back flights of 23 hours, are the pilots able to sleep for any significant amount of time?
How often are they asked to take the marathon flights?
More details would be helpful...it's not clear if this is a new norm from the article.