At least we've progressed from "high levels" to the "highest levels"!

November: "The PBS . . . delays in the posting of practice awards . . . We find these continued delays to be unacceptable . . . SSC has been expressing our concerns with the company for more than a year . . . Discussions continue at high levels regarding the company’s continued inability . . ."

Today: "This topic was brought up at the last SSC conference call, the SSC was made aware months ago by the company that these types of trips were going to be built to "reduce pilot costs and maximize efficiencies." The SSC has been protesting to the highest levels of management against producing these types of trips all falling on deaf ears."

It seems despite LUAL's well-deserved, well-earned reputation as a union, that they have never really encountered a management that is not just anti-labor, but ignore-labor. These responses which continue to flow from the union seem to reflect a loss of words for a company that, pretty much with impunity, blows off it's legal contractual obligations. PBS, pay, FIFO, SC, vacation, hotels, transportation, crew rest curtains, meals, BAT, etc. Ignore, delay, explain, then get permission from the union to fail to comply with UPA, which they were going to do anyway, because what else are they going to do. There's a lot indignant dust in the after all these failures, but no action. I've said before that I wish them better luck than LCAL had, but it seems like déjà vu.