Originally Posted by
ClncClarence
Can you articulate what exactly your major objection is? Like, what specifically do you see happening that you don’t like.
I think there is still massive confusion on what exactly constituted a ‘vacancy’ in the initial posting. The ‘current staffing’ column represented the AWARDS from the previous bid, rather than an actual snapshot of who is ACTIVATED in that seat TODAY. The wording was confusing, but makes way more sense if you really look at the numbers.
For example, the M57F showed current staffing at 182 and min staffing as 362. The means that COMPARED TO A FULLY TRAINED-OUT 21-01 BID we needed 180 more bodies in that seat. I have had folks try to tell me that adding 180 more pilots to that seat was gonna put M57F at 520 pilots which is ridiculous, but taken at face value I see how they arrived there.
From another post:
MEM 757 FOs who bid MEM 757 Capt were not awarded that seat on this practice bid, when more junior pilots from displaced seats were given that award.
Moral: We often fail to see the 2nd and 3rd order effects of company proposed changes that we are told "aren't really changes" and "won't affect anything". The 2015 CBA is what it is. I'm looking forward. Eyes WIDE OPEN. Hopefully, we all look forward that way.
In Unity (for everyone),
DLax