Originally Posted by
duvie
I don’t think most junior people feel they are owed anything. I honestly think that’s your preconceived notion about what someone’s beliefs are … But I think the idea that junior pilots are furlough fodder for bad Times is not an idea I would like to take as a core UAL ALPA belief going forward. I would rather have provisions à la FedEx that allow for some reduction in MPG for unforecast events. And plan my finances accordingly for the events we will inevitable hit every 10 years or so. I’m okay if my earning potential is less because of this. I would rather fly with junior FOs knowing we as UAL pilots do our best to take care of those junior pilots who take a huge chance coming here in their 40s.
we have legal teams our dues pay a lot of money for to look at how the language could be crafted, and even then I would have to read it for myself. But as stated many times, as a junior captain not holding a furlough letter, I for one would consider a (Hypothetical) TA that effectively delivers me a 66% paycut (NB CA to 50% NB FO) If it kept people off the street
Pop on over to the FedEx forum. 4a2b (furlough mitigation) is still being argued about today, 12 years later. Plenty of negotiating capital was used to try to fix the stuff that wasn’t interpreted in the way the MEC thought it would be when it was applied by the company (negotiations that should have been about pay and benefits). I don’t recommend that UA pilots go actively in search of a new slippery slope, there are already plenty of them out there.
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