Originally Posted by
DaveNelson
It's very simple. Do you want a contract or do you wish to continue working under company-imposed work rules that it can change any time it desires?
At post-1983 Continental, Don Breeding (VP of Flt. Ops.) instituted a concept (sham) that he called "participatory management." He told his Pilot Operations Group (a.k.a. The Student Council), "We're going to write what we can live with and then live with what we write." Out came the Pilot Employment Policy and the Pilot Scheduling Policy.
Then he proceed to violate it every time it fit the company's purposes, but enforce it against the pilots when he desired.
When you hear management use terms like "working with you directly" and "flexibility," this is what they have in mind.
That's what I've already thought about the whole "maintain flexibility" regarding our work rules and related documents. To me that says, "We need the ability to stick it to ya if times get tough."