ALPA has just informed us and the company that the Chief Pilot can violate the contract at will.

“A flight assignment given to a ready reserve pilot will depart within the ready reserve period.”

This is not an ambiguous sentence, it is black and white. It does not have a caveat that states "unless the chief pilot orders it"

While this particular issue may not affect most of you, consider the precedent it is setting. How many other provisions of the contract can be over ridden by the chief pilots order? What is the point of having a legal binding contract if it can just be rendered null and void by a chief pilot?

Laws are ofter determined by precedent and this is a very dangerous one