Originally Posted by
APCLurker
So again I ask, are we going to fight for our 3 hour acknowledgment or something that is mutually agreeable, or are we going to roll over and give it up. I don't agree right now that our 3 hour prior acknowledgement just vanishes due to 117.
As I read it, our 3-hour acknowledgment is dead. It's illegal. They can't assign retroactive rest for Reserves, so you need to get your assignment, and go to bed, shut the curtains nice and tight, and sing yourself a lullaby.
I think the questions are:
1) Do we really have a responsibility to be available
via phone at any time? We seem to have a responsibility to be available for contact, and we
seem to have the right to acknowledge electronically.
2) Who has the right to determine how contact is made under the current contract?
The bottom line is that there are some issues in the contract that are changing because they violate FAR117. Some of these penalize the company, and this one seems to penalize us. Nonetheless, there needs to be a discussion on how the transition occurs, and I think we all agree that it's not SD's prerogative to make decrees in that regard.