Originally Posted by jcountry

That's not what was implied in the email (or in what the neg chairman said at the BOD meeting.)

He is quoted as saying something to the effect of "LUS pilots are being paid incorrectly-due to their date of hire." As you know, LUS never used an "occupational date." That was strictly an LAA thing. At LUS, the seniority date was only one thing. There were never two separate dates.

I too have expressed my concerns to the reps. I have not heard any real clarification either.

Sure looks to me like they are trying to apply the JCBA retroactively. The contracts we were hired under do not have the term "occupational date" anywhere I can find. I see no provision for anything other than the one seniority date.

I sure would like to see something in writing which applies this logic to LUS people hired pre-JCBA. Looks to me like a very creative interpretation of a document which didn't exist at that point. In other words-I see no other position for this other than an attempt at a retroactive application of something that didn't exist for over a year for some people.