Oh right, sorry, but you came to the guy's defense saying I better live up to what I was saying. I was just trying to point out that what I was saying wasn't that everything has to be union, just that unionized employees should recognize the difference and *certainly* not take the blatantly hypocritical position that inline did.
I didn't say regional jobs are the same as wal-mart, I pretty clearly said they are better... Regional pay could be better, but at most regionals you can be making 50-60k/yr within 5 years. Maybe that doesn't live up to aviation expectations of yesteryear at a major(and I would like to see wages go back up, and I believe we're seeing the first signs of a pretty nice upswing), but it is certainly a mile ahead of what wal-mart pays the majority of its workers. And all of this is comparing an industry that is just beginning to recover from the longest and sharpest downturn in its history (9/11) to the largest employer and one of the most profitable companies in the world(dur, wal-mart). I was just trying to cut off the inevitable swipe at first-year regional pay and a few of those bottom feeder regionals (like colgan, which isn't union... but, like I said, let's not go there.).
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