Originally Posted by
NoHaz
However, in implementation it seems purposely complicated and designed to have you waste your hotel money if you don't fully track and transfer previous month's bank money. Why hasn't the company been challenged on making that process usable and default towards using bank money first?
The process is incredibly nontransparent and confusing. I spent a long time writing a spreadsheet that tracks all this data and clearly shows running totals of DBA, transfers of DBA and hotel bank accrual/usage. Trying to get accurate info from the expense report section of the website is the complete opposite of user friendly.
Originally Posted by
NoHaz
2. The massive VTO increase and back door PBS doesn't seem to have been challenged at all? Why did we allow a company defined "known r-day" istead of a defined trips to r-day ratio?
4. The rules that came with the retirement notification bonus is another great example of our gain being washed out with increased efficiencies. A one line x dollars for x months of notification would have been a true bonus.
Not a hit on you - but just a general observation. 2.5 years into the contract is a little late to be looking into these specifics.
Questions like these should have been posed by the NC to the company during negotiations. It was their JOB!!!!!!
The fact that these language loopholes and CBA "gotchas" were in the TA they recommended to the MEC and they passed on to us is truly pathetic.
To make matters worse, questions like these and others
were asked and either answered incorrectly or ignored if the answer wasn't going to help with the sell job.
The same thing is going to happen with this retirement plan. They can spin it when they control the information flow. Choose to ignore difficult questions submitted on line or smooth over concerns by saying it will be negotiated later - just trust them. The smart folks here who continue to ask pointed questions and identify holes in the plan won't be allowed the same access to the crew force that the salesmen running the road shows have. If DLax or someone else who speaks this language wanted to send an open letter outlining the concerns many of us have and use the ALPA communication resources our dues pay for to disseminate that to the entire crew force - do you think our MEC would let that happen? Well, if they want us to trust them, the first step would be to publicly release properly vetted dissenting opinions. Put unfiltered, accurate information out regardless of whether it fits their agenda and let the chips fall.
All it would have taken to vote down our last contract was some additional education for 8% of the "can't be bothered to care" sheep in the middle of the pack. If they're kept penned up and isolated while being fed only what the MEC wants them to eat, the same thing is going to happen again.