Originally Posted by
Larry in TN
When the LOA was negotiated, nobody anticipated the possibility of having new-hires so soon so no provisions for such a situation was written into it.
When the company announced that it would hire, they met with the union and both sides agreed that the original intent wasn't to keep the E-175s restricted to 70 seats while new-hires were on property. If the new-hires are subsequently furloughed, the seats will have to be removed again.
But is that in a separate LOA? I understand what you are saying conceptually, but when a LOA is passed and then subsequently any of the terms are just juggled around, sometimes followed, sometimes not, it doesn’t seem like any of the good or bad aspects mean anything at all.
I looked through all of the MEC updates on the website and I can’t even find a discussion that this was ever addressed.