8 Captain upgrades for July? We are losing 15 captains a month which will increase in the summer, last vacancy we only awarded like half of the target upgrades, leaving a deficit, and now we are going to only upgrade 8, in the middle of our summer flying season?
The company is trying to save money on payroll, in violation of the CBA.
The Company will employ a sufficient number of Pilots to
cover all known Flying, vacation, sick leave, scheduled training, Company-related business, known leaves of absence and other known unavailabilities, and staff the
operation so as not to unduly disrupt the schedules of Lineholders and will maintain an adequate number of reserves to cover unforeseen operational needs, to avoid the frequent modification of schedules of Lineholders, and to avoid excessive junior manning.
The company has been in violation of this for years. It’s not fair that lineholders that should be getting days off are stuck working coverage trips instead of being with their families. The company is making NO effort to correct this and should be forced to pay a heavy price for this willfull violation.
If they can continue to profit by running thin and treating their employees like slaves, and dodging any punishment/minimizing any grievance pay, they will continue to do exactly what they’re doing.
Every single pilot at this company is affected by this and every single one of you should be emailing the union about this.