Originally Posted by
ancman
The contract doesn’t place any limitations on the reason for a GFB, other than amount of sick used and frequency of occurrences. About 3 years ago, when GFB use was hitting its highest levels, pilot leaves had a lengthy list of “reasons” to issue a GFB. Sick within a week of a holiday, sick before / after a long period of time off, sick before / after very little time off, sick before / after training, sick before / after vacation, sick after trying to PD a trip (or posting to the swap board), sick after a WS, sick after a GS, sick after a reserve assignment — just to name a few. Virtually any sick call can trigger a contractually valid (in the company’s eyes) reason for a GFB.
They’ve wisely scaled back GFB use since then, but my point stands that as long as we have GFB language in the contract, the company can effectively nullify our lookback / verification requirements (aside from the 50-hour GFB exemption) at any time.
Sure it does. The CPO has to tell you
all the reason(s), within 3 days of calling sick. And seeing as though there were questions on the survey as to how many GFB's you've had, I have no doubt ALPA has all the ammo/data they need to push back hard on the company if they try a mass-GFB campaign. Plus, once we are in Section 6, status quo applies. Openers are 5ish months away.
I think you are underestimating the
GF part of GFB (as well as the spare time each CPO has to squeeze one drop of turnip juice out). Ramping up mass GFB in the current environment would be a glaringly obvious error, easy to prove.