Originally Posted by horrido27

Not looking to start a fight here... but there is something that needs to be corrected.
It's based on where you are in YOUR unionized NewHire class.
There has to be some sort of determining who is "Senior" and who is junior. Be what may, our airline and union has decided that within the class, Senior is based on age.

Everyone entering into employment with United knows that.
Therefore, if someone somewhere decides to "sue" one day, it might be a tough sale. On top of that, that individual will become a pariah within the this pilot group.
Could it happen.. sure. But I think it's gonna be a tough sale.

Guess pilots are upset at your post because we have done it a certain way for so long and now someone (and can I assume you're semi young?) comes in and basically calls what we consider fair.. unfair.

I don't see it changing until maybe you and some of the younger generation get themselves into management and even then, you will always have pilots on the other side fighting this idea.

Not sure how all the other airlines do it (DAL, AAL, FedEx, UPS, SWA, JB, etc..) but then again.. it doesn't matter because as someone posted earlier, it's hard to claim Age Discrimination when pilots of all ages are hired. Heard of someone at 6o hired a few years back!
Not sure if the law would apply to how a company/union determines Seniority within a class.

Always
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