Originally Posted by
Sink r8
Why was that a mistake? If the awards came out before Oct. 1st, wouldn't you have been frozen?
I know there were a lot of guys that regretted bidding a certain piece of equiment, and had October 1st freezes that they were sweating big time, based on the timing of this award.
I don't mind the union asking the company to move an award slightly to help guys out, but I don't like it to be marketed as a mistake, if it isn't a mistake.
If I'm missing something, let me know. Thanks.
It was more of an interpretation issue than anything, but I don't see it as being "marketed" as anything sinister.
It appears you are confusing the date the AE results are published, with the conversion window.
The conversion window for this bid begins on Oct. 1, 2010 and is therefore the earliest "conversion date" per the contract section I pasted below.
35. “Category freeze” means a period of time
a. that is determined under
Section 22 G.,
b. that commences on the date of a pilot’s award of an AE or VD for which qualification
training is required, and
c. during which the pilot will (unless declared eligible by the Company) be ineligible to
be awarded another AE with an earliest conversion date falling within the freeze
period (other than to a new or reestablished category) for which qualification training
is required.
This is where the interpretation problem came from. In iCrew it says my "Freeze Expires: 01OCT10" and crew planning was saying that I was therefore not eligible. My argument was if the freeze is expired on the 1st, then how am I ineligible for this bid as I wouldn't be on a freeze on the "earliest conversion date."
I had pretty much given up on this bid as I was told by several different people in Crew Resources that this was how it has "always been done."
I am glad the union followed up on this though, as I'm sure there are many other guys in the same boat.
No cover up here. No scheme being "marketed as a mistake." 