Originally Posted by
SomeAv8tor
Sick time to start. Also, how about all those areas of the contract that were only added after United announced their TA and APA had to quickly play catch up and pretend they did the work knowing full well they got us the bare minimum because “the company said no”. The amount of senior pilots I flew with that never read our TA was astounding. Many still don’t know the contract. I remember Ed sounding like a bumbling goon on town halls. Hotel language was another one Ed brushed off. Check out where we stay in RSW and then ask your United buddies where they stay. I guarantee it’s not in a shopping center or next to the highway.
For real. Our annual accrual and sick is ridiculous. Not up to snuff and have a 3 day? Boom, you just burned 25% of your annual accrual on one trip.
Gains? Sure, a bit. Im glad new hires dont have to deal with the 0 sick for 6 months crap like before. ESB is a major gain IMO too.
However, only 60 hrs/yr is garbage. Not having a way to get back sick, ala sick day 1, but well by day 2 but too bad, you burn 3 days worth of sick. Why not have an option to get your 10.30 of sick back via a self-repair/RO/LC type situation is also garbage. If not? Ok, fine, charge the full amount of sick.