Bjtdrvr said it.
[QUOTE=bjtdrvr;2575672]Seniority Protection and Furlough/Recall Rights
The conversation should really be over after just this one item. The company has shown in the past that they don’t follow seniority with upgrades. There are four pilots in the Gulfstream with seniority numbers higher than 500. Nine more in the 400s. Are we to believe that nobody higher than #400 wanted to fly the largest aircraft? Mr. Ricci also admitted in the first video series two years ago that there was favoritism in assigning those seats. He straight up admitted it, while our direct manager had been denying it. If they didn’t follow seniority before, why should we believe they will in the future? And what about furlough? Even in the old days of Flexjet we never had true furlough. We had termination with severance and then preferential re-hiring (with an interview) but no guarantee of getting your job back (and not everyone did). And when you did come back, you were a new hire starting all over again. Options has actually furloughed out of seniority in the past (just before the contract). The company has also shown through their contract proposals, which are available on the union website, that they want to give “super seniority” to Red Label pilots and make it so that they can not be bumped out of their seats in the event of a reduction in force, meaning that a more senior pilot could be let go before that Red Label Pilot. In this industry seniority is king and it should be respected above all else. The company has proven that they do not respect it, and so we need a contract to enforce seniority.
Scope
This is an often overlooked but very important part of the contract. The Scope section of the contract protects our jobs.