Originally Posted by Scoop

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I agree with you on that narrow point, however the problem is the law has changed. What was once legal is now illegal. Ask yourself this - does our contract trump the FARs? No it does not. Do you really think the Union would win this as a grievance?

Our argument would essentially be that our reserves no longer have to legally acknowledge any assignments since our contract lets us wait until 3 hours prior to report - good luck with that.

Don't get me wrong - this is the companies problem not ours -They had plenty of time to prepare for 117 and they totally blew it - too bad for them. That does not mean that we should bury our head in the sand and keep going back to our contract which has now been superseded by federal law.

SDs interpretation was totally bogus, but I believe that both he and the union are now negotiating in public and I predict that something will be worked out.

I just hope we leverage it into something useful.

Scoop