Originally Posted by
Nevets
Actually, if a union were voted in tomorrow, your current pilot policy manual would become status quo, until a new contract is negotiated. Meaning that management would have to treat just as a contract. In other words, they cannot change anything in it unless it's by mutual agreement between both parties. That alone would be a huge QOL improvement.
I don't think so. Of course I've had crew support try to violate the PPM, but any time I've called them out on it or called a SAPA rep I've won. They mostly stick to it or are forced to stick to it. The issue is that the PPM is written in such vague terms that it can be 'interpreted' in different ways and usually you don't win those battles. If the policy were made into contract by a union vote the same vague areas would still exist and they would still do the same things they do today to work around it. The whole thing needs to be re-written to fix that which would require a contract vote which would take a few years.