Originally Posted by
mooney
I'm gonna agree with Axial (someone please pinch me).
Say there are 2 XJ furloghs....1 with a 2008 hire date and one with a 2009 hire date. 2008 passes on getting hired at 9e with longevity bennies, but 2009 guy gets employed at 9e with XJ longevity. What gives the right for the guy who voluntarily said "no thanks" in the first round and is still unemployed to think he should be senior to the guy who showed incentive and took the 9e job? i think all XJ furloughs that took jobs at 9e should end up senior to the ones that didn't. The 2008 guy gambled when offered a job and lost. That happens in this industry...
Because that was the deal they were offered. If they were made the offer that they had to go to 9E or 9L or lose their XJ seniority, I would agree with you, but they were not given that offer.
We won't even know for certain if anyone will be integrated until the day after tomorrow anyway.
What if they didn't want to take the chance that they would have been stuck under 9E's current contract or worse yet, Colgan's non-contract?
Like I've said before, if they were merging the lists and the XJ furloughs were going to displace someone else on the list into furlough, then I agree with you, but that is not the case at all.
They are on XJ's seniority list, and they deserve all of it's protections.