Originally Posted by APC225

None of it, really, and never can be with this management team. One simple example will suffice.

5-E-5-a When a Reserve is available for a full Bid Period, he shall be scheduled for twelve (12) days off in each thirty (30)-day Bid Period and thirteen (13) days off in each thirty-one (31)-day Bid Period.

The union is touting this as 5 extra days off from the current contract. Guess what. The company turns around and modifies the length of bid periods, which they are allowed to do, which reduces the number of 31-day bid periods in 2013 from five to three, including ending the Dec 2013 bid period on the 29th!

So, let's say there are 1,000 pilots on reserve. By taking away two days off per pilot, that's 2,000 workdays gained by this simple modification to the bidding schedule. The 2,000 workdays gained by the company represents nine or ten pilots who don't have to be hired.

This, in a nutshell, is how our management team treats a contract. It is a petty, shortsighted, bean counter mentality. But multiply it across innumerable contract items and you can understand what the next eight years are going to be like. The contract hasn't even been approved yet and they're already running circles around it.

Grieve it? Grieve what? It's legal. We've fly planes, they fly spreadsheets. Welcome to the new United.