Originally Posted by
TonyC
Yes, I do know what a soft parameter is.
Do you know what a simile is?
The Scheduling Committee Chairman is being given the discretion to include B-767 flying in the B-757 bidpack, and we've been given no justification as to why that might ever be appropriate. He can decide unilaterally when it's OK to abrogate seniority by placing wide-body flying in a narrow-body bidpack. If it makes his job of building bid period packages easier ... well ... Oh, well. I stand by my statement. Seniority is reduced to something that can be waived.
I seem to recall some people being upset by a certain city purity letter. Maybe that was a false memory ...
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o.k. Simile it is.
Simile
noun
1. a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”
City Purity letter gave something to the company that we previously had and its existence was witheld until after the TA vote. Not a good comparison either.
This is a schizophrenic crew force. Some lament that the 757 bidpack may have no 767 flying in it and others worry 767 flying may end up in the 757 bidpack.
Union leaders make unilateral decisions all the time. In the not to distant past...Even after a poll the MEC commissioned tells them to do something leaders decided not to follow the resulting guidance. Heads should have rolled but did not. Not immediately anyway. I can understand being gun shy after that but the MEC has changed out since then.
I think you want all 767 related flying in the 767 bidpack to, in the long run, maximize the number of 767 bidpack crew members. You think the SIG Chairman may make decisions that won't work toward that goal. But isn't there a mechanism to make sure all goes well? A check to make sure one time waivers do not decrease the number of 767 bidding crew members?
We'll have to vote in MEC members that will make sure the SIG Chairman does the job right. I haven't seen evidence that is currently an issue and do not share your fear.