Sick verification-- I think you're right. I know someone who already has gotten a call from the CPO. He used sick once now since the contract change, didn't verify it, and got a call from the CPO checking on it's "good faithness".

On the other hand the CPO took his "yes/no" answers and said "ok, verified". Yes, the system "worked" because the cpo was a decent guy...Still, it's the threat of them calling whenever they feel they have a reason to check. Which they obviously felt was ok on the first sick use of the year with no regard to the 100 hrs of unverified available.

I absolutely knew that all the naive glass half-full wait-and-see folks were wrong on this sick leave aspect of the contract, and that their expectations that the vagueness in the contract would NOT be used to the fullest against us by the company was wishful thinking. Now I feel I've been proven right within days of the new sick leave going into effect.

And yes, I did tell my buddy to report it to ALPA for their data collection per their note they sent out.