Originally Posted by
Slick111
If the payment of the bonus is contingent upon the pilot remaining employed by PSA, then it's not outside of the CBA. By your measure, a new hire pilot would receive the bonus even if he quit after one day of indoc. or if he washes out of training. Is PSA paying new hire bonuses to pilots who have quit during indoc. or have been fired after failing training?
If they were illegal they would be gone because they take leverage away from unions but they are all still here at every regional. Maybe you have a better grasp of labor law than any of these unions and law firms that can't get them to go away.