Originally Posted by
Coast
The Company shall accommodate his preferences in accordance with seniority to the greatest extent practicable."
Just another giant hole in our contract that the company can drive a truck through and will.
Just spoke with CRS and they told me I can't get any trips that are currently in the window until all secondary lines are built, even though my seniority is high enough that I could have held the 5th Secondary line. In fact, I was led to believe I can expect RA. There is no way RA is in accordance with my seniority. R24/RB would be reserve in accordance with seniority, trips would be in accordance with seniority. Above 80-85%, I can promise I will never bid RA! I've read the contract and must be missing something. Any help would be appreciated.
Just another giant hole in our contract that the company can drive a truck through and will.
They will give you RA because they can. If you want to help change this procedure, file a grievance immediately following the awarding of your RA line. More than likely you will not be successful and the union probably will not even want to help you, but you have a right to file.
I personally think the answer to this hole in the contract is to let a person in training bid the next month if their schedule is to finish training before the next bid month. Not, if they are scheduled to finish after the bid closes. Because this only happens to most pilots a few times in their career, it is not a big issue for contract changes. However, as you can see it is a big deal. Use your union survey to demand the change and encourage all of your friends to do the same. Thanks for bringing this up as most of us do not think about it until we are faced with the same. I will put this into my survey.