Originally Posted by
EWRflyr
And that could likely lead to a more senior pilot being reassigned to do undesirable (for them) flying at an increase cost to the company to comply with a reassignment. This not only adds more than a "de minimus" cost to United but it is a violation of our UPA in terms of seniority rights. Any reasonable accommodation must not cost the company more money to implement nor can it violate the rights of the other unionized employees within a work group.
I get all that; and overwhelmingly I think where conflicts arise, the burden should fall on the ineligible pilot & not the company. Considering the small number of pilots who fall into this category, though, I think it could be done with relatively little disruption. If not, I could see going so far as restricting said pilots to the Airbus- where the route network has minimal chance for conflict. And yes, some of that could require union consensus.
Understand, I think anyone still holding out is grossly miscalculating the risk/benefit balance of this vaccine- but I do hate to see anyone lose their career over it.