RE: Excess bids
Originally Posted by
FDXLAG
The legislation and regulation change is what caused/allowed them.
The CBA allowed them.
Management caused them.
The age change should have caused our seat progression to stall for a maximum of 5 years. System growth, deaths, loss of medical, failure to pass checkrides, the desire to retire prior to 65, and numerous other circumstances should have made the stall something less than 5 years.
Jack's decision to spring the over 60 crowd from the back seats with an Excess Posting instead of a Vacancy Posting is what sent our seat progression backwards. Until then, nobody had ever been forced to give up a seat that he was awarded on a previous bid. Jack changed the dynamic by pushing people backwards, and created the animosity that still plagues us now.
I just wish we could all focus that animosity in the correct direction.
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