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Originally Posted by
baseball
The issue for me is this.....SENIORITY.
PBS is redefining seniority and what it means. We are now in a situation whereby our union is helping the company water-down, abrogate, or marginalize our seniority.
So, why is it, that when we do something that's so important 12 times a year we simply throw the seniority list under the couch and simply use it as a "guide" to loosely define your seniority, and instead come up with terms like overall solution constraints and then mash that in with relative seniority....
Lock and load the seniority numbers for the monthly bid the same way as we do for our vacation bids and vacancy bids.
I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. I absolutely agree with your first statement. But, how is the union responsible for PBS?
ALPA did not choose the system, the company did. I agree PBS should honor seniority. In it's current form it does not. The ALPA PBS guru's help us work within the current system, they are not responsible for it.
Tell your LEC, be part of the process, write and pass a resolution to make it a negotiating priority, I have. But ALPA help abrogate seniority? I don't see it in this case.