Originally Posted by
detpilot
By showing up to work, you're "helping me pull my reserve duty?"
It sounds like you just don't want to work. Your job is to help fly the line, and fill in holes when other pilots can't (for whatever reason).
By the way, last time I checked, we are innocent until proven guilty in this country... so it's on YOU to prove that people are gaming the system.
I don't know what your beef is, but maybe you should just focus on doing YOUR job instead of worrying about how us guard/reservists balance ours.
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If you are wondering why this becomes so volatile I will give a specific example:
Today at 9AM local ORD time a PVG trip came open for tomorrow.
This meant that at 1055 in seniority order a pilot could pick up the trip.
It also meant that nobody could drop a trip as part of that pick up. If a pilot wanted to trade out of a trip on the 21st to pick up the trip on the 20th, that would not be allowed. I am not commenting on the contract on this, but those are the rules that we are all subject to.
At 1045 AM a pilot took one day of MIL on the 24th, dropping his 4 day PEK trip on the 21st! Then he was free to pick up the PVG trip on the 20th! There were several other pilots that had trade requests in to drop a trip and pick this one up, but the one who got it was the one that could get a drop via a path that none of the others had available!
I was in the Navy for many years, and while I was in if a guy pulled that kind of s___ on his fellow squadron mates , there would have been hell to pay for that pilot for the rest of his career! But here we are told to mind our own business??? When a pilot uses his MIL status to violate the contract, it is all of our business!
I have a big problem with UA not giving pilots their correct benefits they deserve when they return from active duty (which is what the suit is about), but I do not have a problem at all with UA verifying status (absolutely allowable by USERRA law) especially if it is a case such as one outlined above.