Originally Posted by
Gunter
We have had this overmanning problem for many months and the company has been buying up lines in the 727 to get the BLG the company wants. (Min)
So if the company can arbitrarily reduce BLG, why haven't they done it by now? Why are they giving the SIG buy-up money? Remember the O&B lines worth 66 hrs and paid at 68 hrs?
I do remember those lines. But the CBA states that the BLG reduction can only be used to prevent/delay a furlough. A temporary lack of 727 flying hardly can be justified as an impending furlough, but the age 65 thing + a slowing domestic economy can. I haven't seen anything that would prevent the company form reducing BLG unilaterally. The only thing that would stop them is the threat of legal action after the fact. In that case they would lose if it was obvious that a furlough was never an option.
With this "perfect storm" of sorts their legal justification becomes more and more sound.
Still this is all speculation on what could happen... Short of world war 3.5 I doubt there will be any furloughs...