This really needs to be fixed on the next contract. There's a bunch of problems here. First, I understand they need to protect certain holidays. Hence, there should be holiday pay. Need a better argument? All of the other work groups get holiday pay. So should we. Optics and all. Second, any day they treat as a holiday (i.e., 1 day before and 2 days after the associated holiday where they limit trip trading, drops and X-day moves) should also pay "holiday pay". Why not? They're getting 4 days out of every holiday they declare, limiting our ability to drop, swap or move X-days. If they don't want to pay holiday pay for ALL of those extra days, they don't get to protect them. Payback days should be treated the same on holidays as any other day. You earned them, often times by them violating your off days. This mess really needs to be fixed...as well as the crappy IT programming that won't let you swap equal trips within these "protected days."