North Mississippi Flying Club vs. 9E ALPA?
The word in the crewroom yesterday was that the "North Mississippi Flying Club" has quietly hired a lawyer to sue the PNCL MEC over their signing bonus distribution amount being drastically reduced by the new method of distribution. For those of you from other airlines who don't know who the NMSFC is, it's the commonly used term to refer to the ultra senior check airmen at Pinnacle who double dip the open time and sim events and credit monthly of 130-150 hours of pay at max captain pay while busting people on line checks and pc's weekly. Now they are mad as hell (if you can imagine that)!
Apparently, the signing bonus for the very senior check airmen was to be in the $25,000-$40,000 dollar range via the "old method" that was to be distributed in proportion to your W2, in the event that TA1 passed. Essentially the more your W2 was last year, the more you would have received on your signing bonus. While the 2-3 year first officers only made $1,000-$3,000. Now that there's a new method for distribution, It balances out the top heavy pay outs to make things more fair to everyone who has lost tremendous amounts of money by not having a contract.
Do these guys have a leg to stand on in court?
BTW IMHO, I think it should be equal for everyone like UPS did recently with their signing bonus.
Last edited by Pinchanickled; 12-14-2010 at 10:07 AM.