Excargodog

There is more too it than that. Atlas was able to convince a judge that any change in the pattern of pilot activity, including simply more rigorously adhering to the current CBA, was illegal under the RLA if it occurred during the period of negotiations because it broke the status quo required during negotiations and mediation.

Effectively it said if you didn’t ALWAYS require the company to adhere to your contract (or grieve it), you really established a new and lower baseline. It was sort of like letting the public use your property for their travel which over time in most states effectively establishes a public right of way.

So it isn’t even that you train people, it’s that if you don’t make an effort to enforce the terms of your CBA you effectively cede back to the company the very issues you bargained to get.

I think that’s a lousy precedent but the precedent has been set. Hence the ‘no waivers, no favors,’ policy that many pilots adhere to. It isn’t that they don’t want their company to be successful or to help them out in a jam, it’s that anything you do once as a favor can become the new norm.