Originally Posted by
CALFO
Motch,
....why do you feel the Union is deceiving you? Have they not give you every page of contract? Are the examples in the Crew News not legitimate? BTW- I've flown two of the trips that are in the CrewNews, as well as countless other, pay nothing, waste my time trips.
Did you notice that several CrewNews were published the same day that the TA was released? Do you remember that the Implementation LOA was the last document to be produced and wasn't even finalized until well into the MEC review period? I ask this because it stands to reason that most of the CrewNews were written before LOA 25 was finished.
...I don't see this as deception, just as reality of the Union trying to write explanations of the contract as expeditiously as possible.
The Bold area (if true) raises many questions. But the main one is- if true, then the MEC Should have voted NO once they saw that the implementation Schedule. Why did they Vote YES knowing that many provisions don't start for 3 months later, others 9 months later and the example shown, almost 18 months later (if we are lucky).
The Underlined area troubles me. It's the job of the Union to put out correct information. What the CrewNews does, is put out misleading info in that EVERYONE reading it would think that the pairings shown would/will pay that much immediately. NOT True.
What happens when, in April 2013 or Dec 2013 people ask- why am I getting 29 hours credit.. the example shown states 33:08 hours credit.
Will the Union state- It's legal, in the Contract. You should have read it?
I have spent WAY too much time over the Holidays (hint hint) reading through a 500 page document.. plus the other multiple documents. But not everyone will do that. Many pilots don't have the time (right now) to read everything.. so they are probably reading the CrewNews and the JCBA Comparison. Both are misleading.
Motch
PS> I still haven't had my 3 Q&A's answered on the Union Page. Why?
Was told that they have too many questions and not enough "volunteers" to help out.
What was the Union thinking? How do you not anticipate thousands of questions from a pilot group of 120000. How do you not have people ready to do this work.
Unless, it's hard to find people to "sell" this.