I wish it were that simple. It is, really, until you start talking to the ERISA attorney.
Look in the CBA for an animal called "Temporary Vacancy". The Company can send a Memphis MD-11 guy to Anchorage or Los Angeles for 3 months, or a Memphis B-767 to Indy for 3 months ... anybody to any non-FDA base. The provisions are remarkably similar, yet there was no outcry about TVs during any CBA ratification vote.
I don't know how many times I've heard this, and I don't know how many times I've tried to correct it, but I'll try once more.
Nobody said the VACANCIES in the FDA would go senior. I expected them to be filled primarily by guys already in Subic Bay. What was said was that the STVs would go senior. Since we've never had an STV, I guess we can't prove or disprove that prediction, can we?
I think we can both live with that.
It makes for more lively discussion over cold drinks.
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