Originally Posted by
PasserOGas
I really dont know why ALPA hasnt filed a lawsuit about this. You are being asked to perform labor, under penalty of disciplinary action, with no pay and no labor protections. And before you say "But they gave you a free flight!", I will ask you are they abiding by minimum wage laws? What was the value of that flight? Whose state regulations apply? Remember its not just pilots. Some of the people being asked to work are normal hourly employees subject to their states labor protections, not the RLA. If you are injured (razors, needles, broken glass in the seat back) who is liable for that? What kind of training was provided? Who covers your medical? Does the PEA apply?
In other words, just WTF is taking ALPA so long to shut this nonsense down?
ALPA hasn't done anything about it because they claim "they have bigger fish to fry". I have offered to "get on the case" but they have refused to let me act on behalf of ALPA (
unsatisfactory replies from JB ALPA management and P2P and no interest in personally engaging me for a resolution). As you know, we pilots cannot sue JB because it ends in arbitration.
The only thing ALPA has done is to file a grievance against not being paid for the "clean the airplane" training we had to take. This doesn't solve the root problem, which they are evading. The PEA is crap... you have no legal rights since you are being denied legal "due process" -- it ALWAYS ENDS IN ARBITRATION. JB is run by lawyers who know how to screw you. The PEA is an unacceptable "screw the pilots" false compromise.
Does anyone have the email or literature alluding to where JB initiated this draconian policy in order to save money on not hiring cleaners?