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Check Essential
This is not a change to a checklist.
This lowers the number of line check airmen required and it has a financial impact.
Suddenly allowing first officers to perform work that previously required a captain is pretty clearly a change in our working conditions.
Changes to our working conditions during Section 6 are prohibited by the Railway Labor Act.
Uh, even the AQFO position has been around only a little over a decade or so,concurrent with an expansion to C. and S. America. Where was the "status quo" grievance a dozen years ago? Believe it or not this is not a "Moakist" conspiracy. And what the hell is that anyway... in the real world that is.
Within a month if not sooner these posts will be long forgotten (next to the check box for GS award while flying LOA), to be replaced by another "crisis."
JM is doing a good job managing 100 different things to get us the contract we deserve. Let's let him continue.