Originally Posted by
slowplay
At the MEC meeting the negotiating committee put up a bunch of slides on our sick leave use and its change over time. I'm working from notes, so I apologize for any errors. Since 2012 sick leave usage is up 30%. The top 20% of sick leave users that don't go on disability use 50% of our sick leave. 5% of our pilots use more than 40 days per year and never go TD or LTD.
They also addressed that demographically our aging pilot group should only use about 1% more, not 30% more. There has been a pilot behavior change. UAL and AMR's sick leave has decreased (no data provided) but both those properties have substantially more punitive sick leave provisions than we do, beginning with only 60 hours of accrual.
They said because of increased costs this is one of management's top priorities.
I hope one of the notepads covers this, as sick leave was just a few slides in a big deck.
Without some way to do our own audit using guys we trust (not DALPA or management) these numbers are just numbers and mean nothing.
Penalizing the entire pilot group is not the correct way and DALPA should know better.
Also, if you are going to come here to answer questions, stop saying "I'm going from memory or notes and sorry for errors". If you are going to defend POS2015, you better come ready to provide detailed facts. Also, all you Ford (union busting contract pushing guys) and DALPA insiders need to stop with the hyperbole and quit downplaying all the downside.
You leave yourself these "outs" to weasel out of what you said later. For this reason, you cannot be taken seriously. It's just another form of skewing the data to drive perception. Half truths and selective snippets that you do happen to remember don't cut it anymore.