[QUOTE=gloopy;1706580]Just to clarify, you do not necessarily go on long call at 0000. That is only the case if you haven't gotten anything by 3pm. Regardless of if you checked or not, you can still have a legal 1000 trip or short call, as long as they did put it on your sched by 1500 the day before.

The assumption is if you don't check it from 1500-2359, fine, but you need to check it by 0000. Of course we no longer have to notify of anything, which was a massive concession IMO. Its unprecedented that we are considered notified now upon first voicemail attempted contact. That was an earth shattering giveaway that will remain forever, long after the higher duty period average goes away during the next crisis or whatever.


Gloopy,

I understand and agree with being both critical and skeptical of management, but if you think that they will be able to take away contractual provisions "during the next crisis ..." what difference does anything make?

We can apply that logic to any item in our contract that we value - payrates, duty rigs etc.

I have been screwed as bad as most of my peers here at DAL by the former corrupt management team. The same team that mostly took retention bonuses and left anyway, the same team that tried to secretly negotiate BK proof pensions while at the same time going after employee pensions. I can go on, but you get the idea.

I will forever remain highly skeptical of anything management "says" but once it is "contractual" we have to proceed on the assumption that either they will honor the contract or we (DALPA) will pursue all possibly legal remedies.

Many will argue that DALPA does not do this, and that is a valid discussion to have, but a separate issue.

Scoop