It's bad news. We've had this problem before and have settled with the company on this grievance. They are now ignoring their agreement. The next steps may not be pleasant for the company. Unfortunately, we are in the middle of sec 6 negotiations so I suspect the company will use this violation of our contract as a bargaining chip. We'll see, but it smacks of our management being disingenuous.

Again the bottom line is the RLA makes unions almost powerless.