That said, if DW was fighting for shorter days, I doubt it was to screw you out of anything but fatiguingly long days. If it is pay that was the driving factor, there are many other contractual protections that could have been proposed that would have increased the bottom line without the ultra long days.


In regards to the above DW wanted our double crew day reduced so that ATLAS mgt wouldnt come come back and say "see k4 has xxxx we need that to be competitive"....seeking a concession. The facts are this was the final piece of the puzzle and in July when the company and the K4 NC agreed on 24 hours (this is 6 hours less than our 30 hour day)...it would have been done....except that at the last minute the K4 guys were told that 1224 would never agree because it exceeded the current "book" at Atlas, thus a deal was not struck that day. In Sept with the help of Capt Bourne, a deal was struck with the contract exactly as it stood that day, except with a single interest item arbitration to decide the double crew duty day. That arbitration will take place in 2 weeks in DC. The outcome will be known some 30 days after that.