Originally Posted by
Deuce130
Did I correctly understand DW when he said that individual 757 FLEX/LCA pilots negotiated their own deals with the company, on a case by case basis and outside of the union? Then those same pilots had issues when the actual CBA caught up to them? Please tell me I misunderstood that.
You paint the 757 Standards guys with too broad a brush.
When they, and others, worked 727 standards/LCA/Flex they got widebody passover. It is a job held by some bright and hard working folks and I think they deserve the pay. Are you expecting these highly experienced folks to do the same job on the 757 at narrow body rates AND be forced to pay back years of passover pay due to a hole in the CBA concerning the addition of a narrowbody plane to the fleet? I didn't think so. No one does. So they bid the widebodies they could hold and are now out of standards because the company wants to pay 757 LCAs and Flexes narrow body pay. I don't think the 757 guys had unreasonable expectations of keeping their previous pay rates.