Originally Posted by
onetime
All true G. Though if you read the SIG notes for July, there is no mention of safety like normal, only "rest on your time off" and "inability to turn into or out of." Which is again why I think we will lose this battle regardless on whether they are flown by the independent contractors or not.
So your solution is to surrender?
There is a cost to the company. May not be big enough in our current climate to effect any change; but that is no reason to give up our only contractual method to improve pairings. Hard parameters are a great idea, we have hard parameters now and they aren't going to get better anytime soon. The more we allow the current pairings to degrade, the more it will cost us to improve the hard parameters in the next contract.