Originally Posted by
PolishFlyerDude
What RJSAviator said, and...
Questions I’d have about Republic’s case to start would be:
1) When was the CBA’s amendable date?
2) When was mediation filed for?
3) When was strike authorization taken? What was result?
4) Any accusations of illegal job actions?
5) Any motions filed by Republic management against the pilots?.
1. Amendable Oct 2007. Started negotiating in April. TA ratified Nov 2015.
2. My memory isn’t that great. Went through multiple mediators though.
3. Don’t know the date for that either. Over 99% voted to strike. Nothing happened.
4. Not that I can recall.
5. Not that I recall.
Bedford and Heller were the idiots who “successfully” argued that a 100 seat airplane didn’t have 100 seats because they didn’t intend to sell a ticket for the last seat. Therefore it didn’t exist.
They took the seat back off and made it a coffee table. All to avoid paying pilots a higher pay rate.
And then refused to pay pilots the same pay for Dash -8 aircraft with the same number of seats as the ERJ. Because it was had props.
And also refused to hold vacancy bids for new aircraft/bases because senior people bid it and it would cost training events. It was cheaper to displace people around and call it a “displacement vacancy”. Whatever the hell that is...wasn’t defined anywhere in the CBA.
Trying to get anything done with those morons is like arguing with Bill Clinton on what the definition of “is” is.