Originally Posted by
DAL330drvr
Carl,
I'm not willing to give anything up, the question should be, how much is our Neg. Committee willing to give up and that should worry all of us. The current Chairman of the Neg. Committee told a friend of mine,
"We don't rock the boat at DAL", and the context was related to a direct violation of the PWA while he was the Scheduling Committee Chairman.
BOHICA for 2012.
That's pure horse doodoo from beginning to end. What we don't do at DAL is pursue pointless grievances when the contract states "A" and the pilot wishes that it stated "B". But I do know that the union annually recoups literally several million dollars of pay protection for pilots who were improperly bypassed for trip awards, premium pay, etc.
But sometimes the union also has to tell a guy he doesn't have a case...if he truly doesn't have one. There are plenty of times when a pilot indeed does have a case, and the scheduling and contract admin guys are usually all over it.