Originally Posted by
Andy
OK, again. Why not just lower the monthly cap on every pilot so that furloughs wouldn't be necessary? That's the way it USED to be and the way that Southwest still does it.
Or would the pilots rather pay the .25% furloughee medical assessment? ... the good news is that only 1/3 of CAL's pilots voted against the assessment.
Didn't UPS and their union do this and the company still balked and furloughed even after the agreement? Point is, no matter what we accomplish as far as agreements, neither l-ual or l-cal mgmt will honor any thing as a legal and binding contract until they are forced to. At least with the assessment, money was going to the pilots that needed it.