Originally Posted by
injun21
Gotcha, I said protected. I meant being in a maintenance base may prevent.... That in and of itself may or may not be the actual thing preventing crew scheduling from junior-manning me. The schedules at my last airline are comperable to what we have here. Maybe they are horrendous to some and great to others. I guess it’s just point of view. The junior manning going on at regional airlines is partially because of all the contracts and a general shortage of pilots. I went on a bunch of interviews and never left without a conditional job offer, nor did I meet any other candidates whom were told they weren’t being hired.
Our posts sound different because I have never missed my son’s basketball games or my daughter’s swim meets. I have never been junior manned and you have. This would make anyone angry. It’s a normal reaction. If you want to call me names and refer to me as being naive, do so. If that’s what will make you feel better do it. I admit if I had been JMed as much as you, if I missed important things in life as you have, my posts might sound like yours. But I don’t sound like you now.
Ease up...I’m not attacking you, I’m trying to point out that no one is safe from junior mans as stipulated by the contract. I misinterpreted about what you meant when you said you were protected from junior-mans. It just frustrates me when people work the line without knowing the contract, because that brings along the opportunity for the company to use you in a manner that union members fought hard to protect. I’m not saying you know less than me or vice-versa, there are still things that I’m learning about the contract, mostly ways the company can bend the grey-areas to conform to their needs. The company could theoretically junior man a pilot down to 4 days off in a month. That’s wrong. We have to do something about it.
We have to know the current contact and make sure we thoroughly read through any TA or LOA and try to understand the benefits and consequences to ratifying it. But most importantly we all need to stick together and look for improvements for all pilots and not just individuals.
We’re operating under a contact ratified in 2003 and written years before that. Times have changed and we need a contract that more accurately reflects the times we fly in. It’s my understanding that the company is unable to give us pay raises. Fine. But we can at least try and improve our QOL through a new TA.