Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Deadhead,
My concerns about penalties are that the company already considers scope violations a money issue. The Company willfully violates our contract as quickly as we pick up a green slip ... as long as it makes money ... they don't see it as a violation because we always monetize job loss.
I truly wonder if we could legally negotiate an agreed release to self help for noncompliance. We need a counter for job lost which is more than just a small pay compensatory bump every time we outsource more Delta pilot jobs.
I think that right there is key. Basically the company does it's best to comply, but when it can't hold up it's end of the contract, with regard to scope, they tout it as factors outside of their control. The company is negotiating something that they ultimately have little control over when considering demand as the driving factor for growth/increased flying.
Consider this another way....Let's say next contract we offer the company a 10% fuel savings on every flight we operate effective immediately. Obviously, offering this is a joke because it involves many factors outside of our controls as pilots. The company would more than likely scoff at that no matter how much money it looked to save the company each year. Probably not the best example, but it points out that we should be careful negotiating aspects of our contract that management has little control over.
I'm not advocating to give up on scope altogether or insulting the hard work our reps have put into it thus far. Trust me I am truly thankful, but moving forward we need to find a better way to enforce certain aspects of our scope provisions in my opinion.