Originally Posted by
Putter Feet
boxflyer1, I want to make sure I got this right. You used our contract and the vacation section to drop an entire month of flying and get Thanksgiving off. You read that section really well. Now you are claiming you got “screwed” when you failed to read the same contract and you were removed from the MUV trip as allowed. Sorry I really don’t get that. We all need to read and understand the contract. If you are unsure contact the union. There are many people who would give up a lot just to get to spend Thanksgiving with their families. You still have all of Nov and DEC to make up any of those vacation hours you want. If you got “screwed”, you did it to yourself.
Of course he got screwed. He was removed from the trip because someone effed it up, not because the trip was revised or there was a conflict. Had he known what was going to happen, he might have bid differently, with his line and MUV request. He has.a right to be ****ed, first he lost his good trip at the last minute because someone screwed up, and there appears to be no recourse. Had they told him earlier, at least he might have had a chance to get something decent at open time drop.
This stinks that the contract was written this poorly, hopefully there is something the union can do. Maybe he can get something AVA, which would help.