By Solita Collas-Monsod
Philippine Daily Inquirer
prime(prenominal) Posted 20:42:00 08/06/2010
Filed Under: Wages & antiophthalmic factor; Pensions, Air Transport, Labour dispute
FROM THE initial stories that came out in the press, champion got the impression that the pilots who had left PAL were the bad guys. The stories, sourced from PAL management, went that the pilots were earning piles of money (by local standards anyway?P500,000 a month was the encounter being given for a senior pilot). Their training (?cost millions?), which had made them so highly skilled and highly priced in the first place, had been paid for by the company. And yet they left for greener pastures, and with nary(prenominal) a by-your-leave or backward look to boot, leaving behindhand unpaid debts to the company, forcing the airline to cancel scheduled flights, causing the passengers slap-up inconvenience, reducing tourism, thus jeopardizing the economy. Such greedy, ungrateful, thoughtless, unpatriotic wretches was the structural pass on of these tales.
The PAL management, on the other hand, were the good guys in this mutant of the story.
Although the pilots had broken the law and their contracts, which required them to give a six-month distinguish before leaving, the company was willing to forgive and forget any and would not press any charges or impose any sanctions as long as the pilots would come back. Structural content: management was not only reasonable, but ready to play backward for the national good.
Unfortunately for the PAL spinners, the story was too big to be controlled by the usual methods of ?envelopmental? journalism and the menace of advertising withdrawal. So the ?bad guys? were able to get their feature version across.
In this version, the pilots left because they saw how PAL had handle some of their colleagues, and weren?t about to wait for the same word to be meted out to them. Specifically, they saw their colleagues, both senior and junior, arbitrarily declared ?redundant? and therefore...If you want to get a honest essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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