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Originally Posted by FlyingNole By who? Find me a blue collar worker that has the opportunity to make over 80K a year. |
I've seen blue collar defined any number of ways, but never by total income. Certainly there are blue collar workers making six figures in the corners of the old hard unionised industries like steel and auto (although granted their number is on the decline).
If you're going to go by the traditional definition Jet Blue pilots are blue collar, the rest of us are not. If you want to use the other definition in that white collar is generally desk based, then we're all blue collar. On the other hand if you consider blue collar to be manual labor, well we're not really blue collar unless you count heaving my flight bag in and out of the plane.
You have to admit management at most airlines treats the pilots as blue collar labor, not helped by the fact that we have a blue collar attitude based on the union and the contract (not without good reason). If I had to pick (and I don't) I'd say pilots are blue collar labor.
Mostly though I don't care - I just go to work (now there'a blue collar attitude for you :-)