Originally Posted by
makersmarc
let me get this right....it's not okay to pick up open time according to who? In the past the union has come out and said to not pick up open time. This is not the case at this time. From what I can see, some people are picking it up and some people are grumbling about the fact that those people are picking up EF. There isn't much that seems too organized about it. The flying is being done, either by EF'ers or by people that get JM'ed.
BTW, I have never picked up EF (even before there were furloughs; I'm lazy) but have been JM'ed a lot.
Let me get this right...you don't understand this?
The company says we're overstaffed, so they put a bunch of people on the streets. When the system malfunctions (blizzard, runway construction in JFK, or the wind blows the wrong direction in ATL), they start
involuntarily jm'ing. For the people left on property, crew sched. tries to assign illegal trips to plug the gaps, lines are for crap, jm'ing is rampant, reserves become crazy senior and everyone is miserable. ALL these events build a case for the union that we're not "right sized" at all, and need to recall!
Along comes Timmy Toolbag and says, "Garsh...I'll take that open trip! I need the extra cash for the ComiCon convention!"
The company says, "See, ALPA...we don't need no stinking recalls!"
If Timmy needs the extra cash, he can sell his near-mint copy of "The Smurfs, #1"...but don't make the case for the company when people are on furlough.
Mmmkay?!