Originally Posted by
copydat
I second “noworkallplay”. I dropped in on the forum to see if I could learn some intel on negotiations. Amazed to learn that PB days is the focus of concern here on the negotiation update thread.
I guess the major contributors here must be the 20 percent of the list sitting reserve this week. My guess is the 80 percent on a regular line aren’t thinking about PB days. I know it’s been over ten years since I thought about them! Certainly not the first section of a TA I am going to read.
How about gouge on compensation, training pay, vacation days and retirement contributions? Now that’s the areas I’m interested in.
I’m not a reserve guy, don’t want to be, as I don’t live anywhere near base. I will only do it on a WB. But the 9 months of my time at Delta on RES taught me the value of a PB day. They are golden and our reserve system is decent. I’d like to see some improvements for back side of the clock callout (for commuters of course) and I’m all ears for other enhancement proposals.
All that said, I see this so called thread drift as a useful discussion of a hot topic (company desire to eliminate PB). The more pilots that understand the value of what we have now, the better. This rings reminiscent of loosing the chunk of PS we did last time around …. it’s a coveted gem that management hates and we should cling to it like a Titanic life raft!
This is a worthy discussion that I never took as an advocacy for running Grenslips at redline during negotiations. Management has already established that environment and this little APC convo isn’t going to prompt one more green hour of flying aside from what was going to occur anyhow.
Carry on!