Originally Posted by
Fly4hire
You KNOW that the
C20 resolution that failed at the regular March 2010 MEC meeting was not the genesis of the MEC direction in August 2013.
You also KNOW that the direction was given by the majority of the Reps in Aug 2013 after having been briefed by the Scheduling Committee that this was an option to try to reduce the number of days worked by pilots in light of the then upcoming FAR 117.
CDO's were seen as a unique option to work less days for a premium and to minimize the 30 hour layovers due to FAR117. The LOA language became controversial after it did not meet the direction given and the pilots learned the details of the proposed language.
Why are you choosing to deliberately misrepresent the facts regarding the genesis of CDO language?
Are you really lending credibility to the DPA by citing their survey as a reason for including it in the ALPA survey ?
How can you cite the survey as scientific at this point after
DTW first biased the survey sample by offering suggestions (the implications thereof) on how to answer questions?
Fixed it for you.
Now hold on to your tin foil hat and focus.
The C20 reps ( I wonder who they were) were the first to argue in favor of CDOs by introducing a C20 resolution asking that the contract be modified to bring back "illegals." The C20 reps argued that they were very popular with senior pilots. But for the actions of other representatives we would have had CDOs years ago.
Now I'm not saying that the C20 resolution asking for CDOs, which was championed by the C20 reps, was the genesis of CDOs in the FAR117 TA, not at all. What I am saying is that there was pilot input in favor of CDOs.
There has also been pilot input against CDOs in the form of emails to reps.
There are also a significant number of pilots who have expressed a desire for CDOs.
With all these conflicting data points, what's wrong with asking a straight forward question in a scientific survey?