Originally Posted by
Whoopsmybad
Don't forget that not only do they have to finish a step, but they can’t run steps AT THE SAME TIME. That’s also a huge win.
Exactly. Very underreported point. This MOU enshrines some genuine handcuffs on the company heretofore not available to us.
Originally Posted by
OOfff
quick slips will likely effectively kill inverse assignments
Agree 100%.
Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
That was the goal. We didn’t have inverse assignments. We had skip the GS process, violate seniority, robocall everyone, and award trip to first person to call back. This resulted in junior pilots getting trips they shouldn’t have gotten. I laughed a couple times when I read some junior pilots complaining that a senior pilot took their IA and violated seniority.
We accepted these robo-calls years ago as precedent because back then , they actually completed the GS process before proceeding to them. The first come, first serve wasn’t a huge deal because the category already rejected trip as a GS for one reason or another.
Yep, and we have several junior pilots whining all over Facebook about senior stealing “their“ IA. And how the Company needs to follow the contract And give it to Junior. Which is incredibly ironic, given the way IA’s are
actually implemented for the last decade has nothing to do with the contract at all.
Restoring seniority to the free-for-all is a win.
As is the permanent QHCP certification, and a complete lack of a verification window for at least three or four more months, and backdated to June/July. That alone is going to almost wipe out all current verification requirements. We also are going to have an audited 23M7 trail going back two full years. I don’t think the company would have agreed to that had we not had them over a barrel. I feel fairly confident we had to have copies of audio tapes of crew schedulers openly and willfully violating the contract. And when we are grieving a lack of good faith resolution to a prior grievance, that kind of thing does not play well with the system board. At all. In other words, the company got caught with their hand in the cookie jar, and we got some solid gains as a result.