Originally Posted by flapshalfspeed

Important Items:

1) 9E is picketing, feel free to join us

2) Company wants to do away with 9E's contractual Call-in-Honest provision (XJ's is in their FOM, and 9E can take things out of the FOM anytime they want...company wants to get it out of the CBA so they have the power to remove it at any time)

3) Company's current contingency on the min day says Colgan won't get it, but XJ+9E will (no min day on tuboprops)

4) Company wants to jack up the health insurance rates high enough it would amount to hardly any raise for FOs

5) Company has been the source of all the deadlines, and the Union finally said "let's just not set deadlines--they just lower pilot morale and cause more trouble than they're worth." (??????????????????)

6) Company hasn't agreed to Pinnacle's taxi language (15 minutes after blocking in/calling the hotel if there is no hotel van, we can take a cab and be reimbursed--XJ it's 30 minutes, but I guarantee they stay at way better hotels so they prob wait less than us in reality).

7) Bonus money now falls under ALPA administrative manual, and will be attached as an LOA to the 9E CBA post-TA signing, but prior to ratification, to ensure we get the money before the TA goes into effect

8) We have strike permits for all hubs everyday up to Dec. 23rd...I hope JFK is next--let all the "Global Elite" feel a little less warm, fuzzy, and glamorous having to walk through a line of pilots pointing out the fact that they make 25K before riding a crappy RJ to their destination...we will make you feel "First Class" New York, just you wait and see!!!!