Originally Posted by
Professor
Some of you will and can argue that ‘we are just giving this up’. We settled a grievance for lack of JV compliance.
Wrong. We settled a grievance because we refused to defend our contract language after the company violated it. Why we refused to defend the language is an open question.
Originally Posted by
Professor
Its understandable if you didn’t like it.
Who could like it? Do you?
Originally Posted by
Professor
But it is outside of this TA.
Actually, it's not. The grievance settlement did not contain any changes to our current scope language. It simply allowed for a money settlement. As such, the company was required to comply and get the EASK's back up or face another grievance. This TA language permanently excuses grievances based on EASK's because we changed the measuring metric to block hours. That's why the TA and the grievance settlement are NOT separate.
Originally Posted by
Professor
The TA removes UK flying from the balance, adds single aisle flying that only DL does and is very advantageous to our side, because we fly all of Europe flying with 3 person crews, any AF under 9.5 block is 2 person crew.
Our 3 person augment is indeed one advantage, but is totally outweighed by the other concession of changing from seats to block hours.
Carl