Originally Posted by
Birddog
OK Bill Clinton. If you want to get everyone to focus one point---yes, to say there were massive upgrades given away the day before SLI is false.
But you are fixated on the SLI. You can see nothing else. That's why we got here from discussing the C-171 Displacement Resolution. It's a bad resolution as pointed out throughout this thread. It matters not how those pilots got there. It matters not that there is no conspiracy by management and ALPA to "get" those pilots. Nothing matters other than the company is balancing flying and the UPA already handles displacements. If the company returns 737 flying to IAH in the 24 months following the displacements then yes I could see a MOU granting the displaced pilots grandfather rights.
The contract has language covering this and any attempt to go against the contract by doing carve-outs for a special group will be resisted by the MEC. "Let's make a deal" is not covered in the contract.