Originally Posted by
20Fathoms
It’s definitely something we can agree to disagree on, but your statement that it does not have an effect on QOL is still 100 percent false. Maybe not your QOL but we’re a big group. I don’t commute but I don’t get excited thinking about what we could trade our commuter clause for.
In a more general sense, I don’t think we should be looking for things to give away. Whatever happened to no concessions? There’s a reason the company wants CNO.
In fact now that I think about it, the effects aren’t limited to just reserves. Ever GS? Both of the trips that were removed for me this year went out as GS. Maybe it helped your QOL and you didn’t even know it.
I understand your points. But the only reason it improved your QOL (or the GS pilot’s QOL) is because it was a compensation for violating the contract.
Are we supposed to get benefits from the contract based on what it actually provides, or based on what we can get for violations, or both?
I can see the argument for both, but if I had to pick one, I’d easily say the former. The point of the contract is to derive value from its contents. I’d be willing to bet that even if the company paid all the compensatory 23M7s correctly, we would still have a large group up in arms about how the company is violating 23N/O.
Its honestly a more philosophical question about the nature of a labor contract, and as I said earlier, these weren’t all my ideas.