Originally Posted by
Globemaster2827
How is seniority violated in this? There has to be a vacancy for you to go somewhere. If you wanted a higher paying seat or a CA spot, you had the opportunity last bid and probably decided not to take it. You can't just take someone else's seat when there are no vacancies. There's a reason why people say to get into the seat you want as soon as possible and this is that reason.
This is true in an expansion type bid. ALL of our bids now (due to C2015) can be a displacement bid. 23-01 is the prime example. You CAN and some WILL be displaced from the seats they had been awarded in previous bids. That is the point of a displacement bid.
If you think you will be able to just defer your displacement "award" or "assignment" you may be very surprised. The company has a history of training people out of contractual order and there is nothing we can do about it. Oh, they will pay you for the difference (if there is any), but they can and will decide who and how many from each and every seat train into and out of each and every seat at their whim. And there isn't anything we can do to stop them.
When I was displaced (albeit under last contract) I was sent to my new seat out of order and they simply paid me the former rate until the time I should have been activated in the new seat. I wasn't alone. No rhyme or reason, no justification or explanation as to why, they just did it. In some regards we are powerless. Training is one of them, no matter how we try to protect ourselves with contract language.