Originally Posted by
Boatbuilder
As I understand things the 120 hour sick look back was suspended beginning July of last year. The look back will supposedly resume once the conditions that caused it are resolved.
Question. What’s to stop the company from looking back all the way to July 2025? Was there something in the arbitrator’s ruling that would prevent this? Will this be another case of the companies “interpretation”?
There was no arbitration for this case. It was a settlement agreement between the union and the company. There is clear understanding on both sides that sick lookback will be wiped clean from July 2025 until the conditions of MOU 25-05 are met.
That being said, the company is always able to disregard any part of the PWA until an arbitrator tells them otherwise. And really, they can ignore an arbitrator too until a judge tells them otherwise - though that likely ends pretty badly for them, so they probably wouldn’t. Thats just how the RLA works.