Originally Posted by
Roberto
Brownie,
I may answer your question one day, but for now please be assured that I am hoping that the furlough mitigation plan works and that there is not one single person forced out of their seat, including every one of those who were extremely hostile to my right to keep my seat after ICAO changed the age.
Good luck, sincerely,
Roberto
As an extension of the UN, I believe ICAO does not have regulatory enforcement capability. However, if a nation's civil aviation authority adopts ICAO policy, then that nation has enforcement capability.
By the time the FAA adopted ICAO policy regarding the retirement age, I believe you were an FE. You're absolutely right!!...you had the right to keep your FE seat. I don't recall anyone challenging otherwise.
However, somewhere along the way your right to keep your FE seat turned into the right to take my FO seat, which was already awarded to me, and make me the FE. OK then...so the contract gave you additional opportunities, and lacked protections for those such as myself...., what can I say..
Look, I have no problem with someone winning the lottery. I really don't.
What I do have a problem with is when someone wins the lottery -
at my expense - then complains that people are upset over it.
You won the lottery at my expense. Drop some sick time into the '09 pot. You'd be enhancing the next round of negotiations for the very contract which has given you so much.