Originally Posted by newarkblows

Really all you have to look at is the long list of grievances we currently have.

They have fought for our DHD on mainline flights to no longer be block or better because "continental" is no longer operating the flights... they have since come to their senses because they would have most likely lost the long drawn out arbitration.

They want us to check in 1 hr prior at an airport terminal despite the fact that we used negotiating capital to end that horrible idea 7 years ago. It didn't work last time, our operation is twice as spread out across more terminals, and if they want to try it again then they need to negotiate to get it back. They are adamant that they can enforce this upon us and that they are somehow being nice by giving us an "extension."

Pay: Pay claims are not being responded to within the contractual 14 day time frame, they no longer mail you a check for a gross underpayment unless you bring the contract to their attention, and they are actively changing flight times in rainmaker to their benefit weeks after you operated that flight.

We are now in SWAP for any little sneeze across the US which is fine but any trades outside of skedplus (even if it benefits the company) are about as rare as a water into wine miracle, the servers for skedplus are so slow that the ILIW and SLIW are now much less effective line adjustment tools, the wireless in the ewr crew room is now unusable and the powers that be don't want to ask United for a reasonable fix because we don't want to bite the hand that feeds us. Just like they didn't want to fight for our EARNED vacation passes, a pass priority above unaccompanied pass riders, or to stop mainline people from bumping us on our own flights by using vacation passes for an entire year.

The deadheading positive space thing is a blatant concession but now they are whittling away at our work rules and QOL little by little. It might only be a few small things but they are actively taking things away from us. A perfect example of this is how much we have to keep an eye on our pay now that Rainmaker (which wasn't ready to be rolled out) is supposedly a benefit to us. Their first software fix for rainmaker that took months to program wasn;t even to correct the problems we were having with it. It was to correctly pay us LESS! It was paying everyone 75 hrs even if they flew 60 hrs and that was what they wanted to correct first. Not the hundreds of hours of flight training pay, pairing overages, and vacation pay that they were stealing from us.

Nothing is getting better or easier for the employees. Everything benefits them or is somebody else's fault that they have no control to fix so we have to live with it.