Originally Posted by
Falcon7
While line pilots are expected to bid around picketting events and do it on their own time, our MEC reps are being offered up to 10:30 of full pay to picket on the 24th. Why can't our reps just ALPA block those days instead of getting paid up to 10:30 for an hour of picketting? Call your reps and ask them if they will be on FPL (and expenses) to picket on the 24th.
You do understand that these events don't just happen. They require a lot of effort to organize. The reps are not being paid to picket, they are being paid to set the entire event up. It's many hours of work well beyond the day of picketing.