Originally Posted by
gloopy
They absolutely will do that. Our primary counter arguement to any allegation of unproductivity should be their hyper eclectic fleet plan and giving marketing a blank check to trash each fleet's productivity intentionally in order to make a penny more revenue per year. That is the issue, not our work rules. They want every fleet to fly to every city pnce per day with everyone doing extended sits and layovers, then they complain about our productivity. We need stronger rigs to drive them to utilize us more producctively within existing very generous work rule parameters.
That said, buddy bidding to get the month off or to get triple pay for being the victim of your own honored bidding preferences is not going to be a very effective martyr card to play going forward.
I still don't get what you're saying. You clearly don't like this language since it constitutes a "micro empire." Are you saying we should trade it away for something else?
For once I agree with Purple. There is no need to even begin entertaining giving this up. Someone posted a few pages back that we go it in return for giving them 12 month seat locks on new-hires. It was done outside of Section 6. I was surprised as hell that they gave it up so easily, but I see NO reason to give it back.
Btw, I have never had a trip bought off for OE, nor am I senior enough in category to reliably "martyr" myself with PBS...