Screen shot your pay! Early and often.
#11
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2015
Position: 777 CA
Posts: 1,028
Training pay shows up when they do the monthly close out. Look for it NLT the 8th.
#13
Don't say Guppy
Joined APC: Dec 2010
Position: Guppy driver
Posts: 1,926
Payroll and Flight Office personnel will tell you that, to make you go away and stop bothering them. In my experience, when they tell you they will "catch it on close out", they don't 75% of the time. Make them do it before the close out.
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5-E-8-b VDO. If the Company actually disrupts a VDO(s), the Reserve shall receive fifty percent (50%) Add Pay for all scheduled Flight Time and Deadhead Time on and after the VDOs through and including the day the Trip ends (including reserve days),
Last edited by APC225; 07-02-2016 at 08:44 PM.
#16
Was offered 150% VDO pay in a VM. Contacted them and accepted. After trip, extra pay removed. Called and they reinstated. Crew pay reviews it and takes it away again. I make an audio file of the VM and email it to them. They again deny saying "yes it was offered but it shouldn't have been"! Sent it all to CP who directs it be paid. Can't make this up.
Even though it was offered in error I had the tapes. No dice from CP.
At my company the CP office tells us they're our "advocates". The reality is that they are a policing force. Reminds me of the sci-fi minI series from the early '80s, "V".
GP
#17
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Joined APC: Aug 2013
Posts: 2,159
Was offered 150% VDO pay in a VM. Contacted them and accepted. After trip, extra pay removed. Called and they reinstated. Crew pay reviews it and takes it away again. I make an audio file of the VM and email it to them. They again deny saying "yes it was offered but it shouldn't have been"! Sent it all to CP who directs it be paid. Can't make this up.
Not a fan of Bebe. She denied my 150% and said they have the right to restore my days off even though they agreed to buy two days at the VJM rate plus pay me for the days. I guess she believes that it is "inferred" in the contract that crew scheduling can do whatever they want to do after you hang up the phone with them.
I won't be doing any more of anything extra for these people. We should mandate "integrity" in the cba. If unable, get our union rep on the phone, monitoring all crew scheduling lines and phone calls for anything that involves add pay, extra pay, etc.
The CP shouldn't even be involved in this stuff. Furthermore, the CP should just automatically rubber stamp "approved" on all pay claims. if they are really pilot advocates it's time to put up or shut up.
#18
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Joined APC: Aug 2013
Posts: 2,159
Trouble is, the company doesn't care about that. I guess the company believes they must have agreed to that "in error." What did we give up to get that language? The language isn't worth the paper it's printed on if we have to fight tooth and nail for it to be honored.
We need to step up ALPA enforcement and get real-time monitoring up in Chicago. I would like ALPA to send up a police force to sit in and monitor the phone calls.
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