Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
That is the most asinine thing I've heard yet.
Your side pushing SmartPref or nothing isn't meeting in the middle! That was your opening position when McK started pushing it a year ago! The facts, truth, whatever you want to call it is that SmartPref is not a viable system for primary bidding. It can barely even handle your secondary bidding! Yet your side refuses to move off this position of "SmartPref or current line bidding". It's being used as a poison pill. That's not compromising anything. And if we ask SKW which side is more reasonable, we all know what the answer is.
You can shout from the mountaintops all you want to. They've already heard you in St. George loud and clear. BOHICA is all I can say. We warned you.
Wow! Amazingly CaptainTony, you and I agree on something! This push for SmartPerf has gone on too long. They have been telling us that we will be using it for Phase Two bidding since November last year. Over a year later we still haven't used it as it still isn't ready. If we are pushing for SmartPerf or nothing then we are shooting ourselves in the foot. PBS can work well as long as the correct parameters are used. QoL if fully dependent on a good contract and work rules, not the medium used to deliver schedules. I will happily go to a PBS system as long as I can maintain my quality of life. This means duty rigs and a moderate pay increase, nothing earth shattering.
It has been openly acknowledged that ASA's PBS is more costly than the XJT line bidding, so I find that argument flawed, but if the L-XJT MEC is willing to risk all our jobs over an unproven PBS system, then I am not happy. Likewise, if they are turning down positions for our possible furloughs to go to the ASA side, then they are not acting in our best interests.
The only real problem with all of this is that it's based on hearsay and nothing else.