The chairman of scheduling is pushing hard for passing this TA. Yet, when pressed, he doesn’t seem to have any clear understanding of PBS. Only that we have “preserved our industry leading work rules.” When asked about the unstacking of trips and the preservation of seniority he states, “trips will be unstacked at a rate of up to 50% during the holidays and 30% during normal months.”

Unfortunately, this information can’t be found in our TA. The only thing we know from the TA is he following:

We lose MOT.
The loss of MOT is one of two clearly defined line items regarding pbs. The other provision is that PBS will build lines until only 4% of pairings remain.
Why? If we are keeping our industry leading scheduling provisions why can’t we keep MOT?

If PBS is going to fill up my schedule with trips that I don’t want as it unstacks to the 4%, why can’t we drop or swap into MOT? The benefit of MOT is that drops are not subjective to reserve coverage. With PBS we will be unable to drop trip as easily as before.

We lose vacation days. Our min days off are reduced, see chart in TA, based on known abscences including our vacation days. Our two buffer days count towards those days off and go unpaid.

Why are we voting for a PBS system that our own scheduling committee does not understand?