Originally Posted by
notEnuf
If the dialer calls someone with #1 before everyone without an IA then that is a violation. We know the dialer is limited in number and rarely or never calls more than the first amount it is capable of. Scheduling is not excluding #1s as they should for subsequent coverage. This works like a GS and if you jump the line you are culpable just as if you jumped the line for a GS, SLV or WS. The company's non compliance is not an excuse when you know you are stealing because they screwed it up. Moreover, this should result in assignment pay for being skipped and the trip being misassigned. ALPA needs to get going on that. if you were skipped on WS, SLV, or GS steps you would definitely be entitled and fight for it.
Generally, I agree with you. Every time IA is used that doesn't follow the letter of the contract, I'd call violation. If the point you are trying to make is that QS are writing the company into compliance, I'd say you might even have a case there. But that doesn't equal a win.
That said, QS is the proposed, and I think good, solution/compromise. And it can't come soon enough.