Originally Posted by
AnchorDown
You want do a history and see how many posts you've responded to PBS, using the "PBS process agreement" line vs me? And you say I'm taking it personal? Whatever dude. You're on here more than anybody I've ever seen. And nobody changed their mind. Anything agreed to in the PBS process agreement DIED WHEN THE JCBA WENT DOWN IN FLAMES. You and your MEC keep trying to resurrect it. Then cry foul when our MEC tries and protects our own pilots. And yes we can tweak flightline to give you 24/7 trade. That's EASY. We can tweak flightline and give YOU EVERYTHING YOU WANT. Except Globalization. Different algorithm, fundamentally different. You NEED Smartpref to shore up money to keep your OJI Bank, retirement, and a few others... At our expense. The difference between ASA's MEC and LXJT's is that our Reps know PBS, some inside and out. Your reps are extremely uninformed when it comes to these systems. That's part of the problem. So many of your guys scream bloody murder about Uniteds GLOBALIZED PBS system. Smartpref incorporates Globalization, why then would you want it so bad? Why don't you list off the things you want in a PBS system and I guarantee Flighline can do it, except Globalization?
There were a number of things previously agreed to that are no longer on the table. You guys would've been able to keep your retirement, OJI bank and everything for 3 years, that's not on the table anymore either, BECAUSE IT DIED WHEN THE JCBA failed. So in your view ASA is doing something illegal there too? You just pick the "PBS process agreement" because it fits your mantra now. Don't worry you'll be whining about the others later, I suspect.
And I'm ready to "let the chips fall where they may." Are you?
AnchorDown
Yes I am. And that's my point. The only time I point to the PBS process agreement is when you guys bring this up. You just did it on this thread. And I bring it up to show that it's something both MECs have already agreed upon before. They just have to agree to it again, like they will with most of the contract, and we can move on in negotiating something where we don't lose any of the good things in our contracts.
As for trading, your scheduling committee has confirms that they can shorten the trade black out to 3 days. Your system cannot let people trade while they are churning your trips because it doesn't know what would be legal. It's been confirmed so either you are misinformed or you are lying about it. The fact is that the PBS process agreement would have the ASA pilots keep flight line for the duration of the JCBA.
I don't know what you are trying to get out of me but I'm here to tell you to stop taking it personal. The process is working its way through. So what else is there to discuss?
So if any of you guys bring up this PBS dispute, I'll bring up all these things again. If none of you bring it up, I will continue to wait for the process to work its way through.