I started a family this year and my wife came with a daughter. Going from single to a full family, my insurance costs will increase around $500 a month for an insurance that is utterly useless in most cases.
In what world is this ok? I am going to have to leave the company to make enough for my family to survive.
With constant talk about being behind schedule and it's implications, people leaving due to RTO, loss of 4/10s, and this issue, how can we say we are satisfying our 7.1.4 obligations? Is it time to hold the company accountable for their inaction and poor treatment of our people? How do we without a union? At least in the market I reside, the company has utterly refused to pay our front-line workers enough to afford housing, heathcare, and frankly the ability to lead a financially stable life and the company is starting to buckle just like our customers have. How long until we are in the same boat as Boeing, or are we already there and just better at concealing it because we don't have a union?
We need to do better, and our top leadership needs take a real hard look at what aerospace manufacturing actually needs to look like.
Take care of your people, and they will take care of you. If we can't take care of our families with the work we do, where do you think our priorities are?