There's no Christmas in June. Our language was written to be, at best, extremely naive and overly trusting at the expense of the entire pilot group by creating a seismic shift in power towards the company. By giving them unrestricted access to sick call harassment through poorly worded sophistry (whenever something is suspicious, yet suspicious being undefined) good luck to us ever trying to win a grievance on this. Oh and bonus, we just may have waived Federal privacy law for the entire group as well; at least until some "press to test" which hopefully some eventually will. I don't think collective bargaining can nullify HIPAA privacy rights by "forcing" you to sign away or divulge anything whatsoever under any newly created circumstance, but I guess we'll have to see.

For this to become an issue right out the gate, the second it could have, shows a clear path towards pilot pushing through classic sick call harasment which is one of the oldest tricks in the book. A worn out labor busting, pilot pushing playbook we were all told our friends on the other side of the table weren't calling plays from anymore.

This is a big deal and we've dug ourselves a huge hole with the pitiful language we agreed to. This wouldn't have gotten past a community college first year law school student yet it somehow got past the best our association had at its disposal?

Its great that we're now "fighting" the very problem we created and I hope we win. But what if we don't and now we're stuck with this?