Originally Posted by
ancman
In whose eyes, the CPO’s / RD’s? There’s a reason why most of their termination attempts ultimately fail in arbitration.
It is entirely possible for a commuter to get into position for SC without leaving any trace that Delta can see. Not all commuters are full-time commuters either.
Again, I’m not defending anyone who shirks their SC responsibilities. But there is nothing in our contract requiring any pilot to “prove” that they were in position for SC — especially after the fact.
in the eyes of an arbitrator, the only opinion that really matters. If you leave specific evidence when you normally commute to work and all that evidence is absent for a bunch of short calls, and you happen to call in sick for every SC that lacked that evidence only when assigned a trip, you cannot tell me an arbitrator won’t see that as evidence you didn’t go to work.
I’m not saying there cannot be an explanation, just that if you don’t have a good one, the evidence I mentioned before will likely be enough for an arbitrator to rule against you.