Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

Couple of corrections in an otherwise good post.

Voluntary verification went away in C15-TA2, and also gave us the ridiculous “major bone” clause, not C19. C19 raised the QHCP threshold to 120, got rid of the major bone, and eliminated the DOC note entirely. With the MOU, any DOC requirement is gone permanently. ALPA has done a pretty good job of boiling the sick leave frog, which is how you have to do it with an item the company is so irrationally hard over on. There’s still work to be done there, but you’re not going to fix it in a day.

Some say the company was in violation so we should have just grieved it. True, but the hearing probably would have been 12-18 months from now, and the result six months after that. And no guarantee of success on the other end. With the MOU, we have measurable gains right now.