Originally Posted by rickair7777

Those of us who have worked at union regionals and subsequently come to SKW know better.

Union regionals violate the contract all the time, and the "law" never gets involved. You are generally NOT allowed to refuse an assignment in violation of the contract, but you can grieve it after the fact. The grievance process will take many months and if you win you'll typically get one hour of pay as penalty to the company.

So naturally the company doesn't care one whit if they have to pay you an hour next April if that's the cost of forcing you to cover flying today.