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Micro
We forget that this is a victory for the company!! They (the company) write these POS trips and the SIG tries to protect us from them. However, the SIG gets undercut by these DP fliers and has finally given up. I thank JI and his group for beating their heads against the wall for all these years but maybe it's time for the SIG to close up shop and let the company and the optimizer to just run wild. Why waste their time and union $$$. Maybe things will get so bad that we have to call in fatigued (probably never happen) or just pi$$-off enough people so that in 2010 FE and the NC will be able to make significant improvements to the workrules. We've been fighting this battle for years with no success. Why waste any more effort.
I hate to say it, but the same 2-5% who fly DPs will be the same that prevent us from making significant gains in the next contract.