Originally Posted by GoCats67

Actually you are wrong. The current FAR 117 interpretation coupled with our outstanding IT mean that the company must have actual contact with you in order to assign you anything prior to 10 am on your first day of availability. So, if you don't answer your phone (which you don't have to do on your day off) they can't make positive contact with you, so they cannot account for the 1 minute of duty it took to get your schedule and allow you to report before 10am.

This is not a contractual issue but rather an FAA issue. ALPA communication on this came out right at the new year as the FAA informed UA that their plan for assigning trips on the day off and requiring a pilot to check his schedule meant that UA was going to have to document that as duty, which of course they couldn't do, so here we sit not having to work before 10 am on our first day on call!!