Originally Posted by
waldo135
I was present for this portion of the road show in NYC. The way VB works is the size of the VB is limited by BOTH the desires of the company AND the number of volunteers for that particular VB for that particular bid period. If the Company 'tricks' us for a year, then turns it into a POS program, people will not volunteer for the VBs. They will then die. Regardless of what the company wants or the MEC decides, we the pilots can effectively kill the program at any time.
Not really. The point is they will give some goodies to a few pilots in order to reduce overall pilot jobs. As long as the individual goodies continue, there will always be pilots who bid it. Remember trip parking? :roll eyes:
Sometimes the purpose of our CBA is to protect us from ourselves.