Originally Posted by
APC225
FYI. UDOs say that a new tactic has developed. Rather than say you're "junior manned," which you can legally refuse (and apparently many are refusing), they are calling it a "reassignment" or a modification to an existing pairing, which the contract allows.
During the last leg of a completed trip you check the gate assignment and instead of "TERM" (trip is done) it says "AUS - 55 MIN" as if it is just a continuation of an existing trip. Or they meet you at the gate and just say you're reassigned. Call UDO immediately before accepting the assignment. This is just junior manning by another name.
Those aren't exactly "new" tactics as anyone knows from last summer.
Junior manning and reassignment are different things. You are junior manned from a day off. You are reassigned after original scheduled termination...i.e. your trip is extended.