Originally Posted by
keenster
That puts the company at a huge advantage- having green slips. Not saying to get rid of them at all but it sure takes away the ability to negotiate things when guys will fly green slips. I may be wrong about this, but the green slip program seems to favor the senior guys over the junior guys. If not, plz enlighten me as to how the system works. And maybe that is ok, but I would like to see it be equitable across the board.
From talking to the merger committee folks the end money given to the pilot group between the time and a half pay NWA used to get and the greenslip system was a wash proportionally. However, the greenslip system was spread out whereas the 1.5X system was heavily in favor of senior pilots.
Per the contract awareness bulletins:
A pilot who has been awarded one GS rotation will not be awarded another GS in the same bid period until all other eligible pilots (i.e. those who can be contacted and are able to fly such rotation without a PWA/FAR violation) have flown a like number of GS rotations in that bid period, or no other eligible pilot is available. Likewise, a pilot who has been awarded one GSWC in a bid period will not be awarded a second GSWC until all other eligible pilots have flown a like number of GSWC trips in the same bid period or no eligible pilot is available.
In the summer, it is a free for all. The phone rings a lot. When I was on the ER, my third month in the system, I missed an automated call for a greenslip that was 6 day 36 hour trip. Multiply that by two and that sucks to miss that call.