Originally Posted by
whtever
Since management has proven so competent and trustworthy in the past, when the 45 days have come and gone, are there any Mesaba guys that can post highlights of your contract since it looks like that will survive for the Colgan/Mesaba combination? Work rules, duty regs, bidding, scheduling, sick time, guarantees, vacation etc.
Thanks!
For our sake at XJ I really hope that we get something better than the XJ contract. I'm not saying it's bad, but it's never good to go into negotiations having the best contract of the three. There are things in our contract from bankrupcy that I think a lot of guys would like to see get tossed.
Some highlights:
Basic FAA stuff +
PBS sucks but we have tons of parameters...usually top 15 guys get what they want everyone else gets 11-13 days off and minimal awarded parameters, FO lines are built of Captain lines so FO's can put in preferences to fly or not fly with certain Captains
no more than 4 day trips for line holders, on reserve can get 5 day trips
1 day off in a rolling 7
min days off 11 but can be junior manned to 10
junior man = premium paycan't be junior manned more than 2 times a month or 6 times in a calendar year
min day = 4 hours of pay
deadhead paid to 50%
Block or Credit, whichever is greater gets paid
75 hour garuntee
Cancellation paid to 100%
Longer than a 4.5 hour break during flights scheduling must give you a day room
Uniform allowance I think this year from snapbacks goes to $250ish a year
Profit Sharing
Per Diem is around 1.55
Original trip pay, so if your original trip had more credit or block than the one you were switched to than you get paid for whichever one is greater, even if you sit at home while someone is doing OE on your trip
Reserve is 14 hours duty except P3
P1-P2-P3
P1 AM usually 5AM-7PM
P2 PM usually 10AM-Midnight
P3 covers CDO's
Ready Reserve is 8 hours with Per Diem per hour
AM RR 5:30AM - 1:30PM
PM RR 1:30PM - 9:30PM
Callout for reserve is 1.5 hours before report
Report for all flying is:
1 hour in base
30 minutes at Outstations
45 in International
Vacation:
1 week = 7 days counts as part of your days off on PBS but can't go lower than 13 or 14 days off i believe
1 year of service = 1 week off
2 years of service = 2 weeks off
5 years of service = 3 weeks off
10 years of service = 4 weeks off
bid for vacation at beginning of year but can bid throughout the year to change
can change 1 week of vacation (7 days) to 5 days of Personal Vacation Days that can be used when ever with the approval of crew planning
we accrue sick leave credit at the rate of 2.5 hours for each month of active service
There is alot more but these are just some of the basics....may be a few minor errors so fellow XJ'ers help me out