Originally Posted by
Bond
Ok ok ok, someone please explain this to me. How can they get away with furloughing out of seniority? I know they tried to upgrade out of sequence, but you guys won in the end.
So pardon my ignorance, but wouldn't the teamsters have a pretty good leg to stand on for legal action if they try to get away with it????
Someone please educate me on this, cause it just doesn't seem possible to me!
Because for the first year you are on probation and not protected.
It sucks, but you can be terminated at any time, for any reason.
They did this after 9/11 when they needed to park the Saabs. There were 125 pilots that were terminated. Many, if not all, were senior to the jet guys.
The union fought it and lost.