Originally Posted by
JustInFacts
Except that there may not be a seat lock per our CBA. That is up to the SCP. Where in the CBA does it say that the company may solicit pilots to give up their training from a system bid to solve the company's manning problem?
The company has two options per the CBA, post another system bid and train out the previos bid, or they can cancell the previos system bid.
The fact that the company wants to abrogate seniority by selectively asking pilots to give up a slot to an awarded seat because they are short of pilots in a particular seat should be investigated by the union. There is a difference in a pilot deciding this on their own and being seat locked because of it and a pilot being asked to do this and possibly not being seat locked.
It seems that after bid 23-01 trains out, there will be vacancies in the MD. Those vacancies need to be awarded by a system bid, not some side deal.
Agee if solicited to withdrawal by management, no bueno. Maybe what happened was someone wanted to withdrawal, incurred a seat lock for no more than three years, then word got around that it was an option if you were willing take the seat lock.