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Old 07-25-2007, 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by GEOFFREY View Post
The company has also retained counsel to oppose the integration of managers into the IPA. The company could fight this and cost the IPA a lot of money. It depends on how much the IPA wants to risk.
Here we go again. You heard him...you pilots better give up while you still have a job! Don't you realize what you're risking????? If you keep this unruly behavior up you're likely to make Lekites start his period a little early!!!

When we organized there were 7 supervisors actively dispatching out of I think 58. Since the NMB decides class and craft (not the company or their lawyers) they were all given the choice to stay management or take a seniority number. 7 out of 7 took seniority numbers. So it basically went like this: TWU-- "We'll take all of the the supervisors who are dispatching since they fall under class and craft." UPS-- "Uhhhh, okay."

Man, what a fight!!! It's not the least bit surprising UPS has the arrogance to think their lawyers can overturn the NMB's class & craft rulings along with legal precedence set at this airline and many many others.
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Old 07-25-2007, 09:47 PM
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Am I missing something. Is everyone with a "AV8R" in their forum name a little different? Is AV8R a Marine harrier pilot? Just curious.
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Old 07-26-2007, 02:39 AM
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Am I missing something. Is everyone with a "AV8R" in their forum name a little different? Is AV8R a Marine harrier pilot? Just curious.
Huh? Say again? I wish I was a harrier pilot, but I'm not quite sure what a screen name has to do with this topic? I guess I'm a little confused; as always...

Btw, I have flown a harrier in a computer game, does that count? May I add I was able to hover absolutely effortlessly? Not!


Oh, never mind - I just realized UPSav8tr has a similar name...I guess that's what you were taking about?

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Old 07-26-2007, 04:18 AM
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The key here is if the managers get date of hire with seat protection until they can hold a captain's seat. I think any line integration would have to allow this concept. The high timers in mgt. do not have to worry about this problem. They would be captains, anyway. Most line pilots realize that date of hire is the best way.
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Old 07-26-2007, 07:31 AM
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most line pilots realize date of hire is the best way---

did i miss another survey?
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Old 07-26-2007, 07:49 AM
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There was no survey. It is just that this is the most equitable way of doing things. This is the way it will happen, I guarantee it.
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Old 07-26-2007, 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by SonnyD View Post
"The real issue is the new hire manager (Captain) who tries to come down on you and they probably haven't even consolidated yet. What do they know about our operations."

I respect that that's your top issue, but my top issue is different.

My issue is simply one of dollars in my pocket. All Brown flying, scheduled or otherwise, should be performed by the class and craft represented by the IPA. No seniority number, no fly. UPS is (now) free to outsource our jobs, and enjoys the economic benefits of doing so, at our expense.

The company is certainly free to hire any bozo they desire to attempt to adequately supervise me, I really don't care. Their flight-rated supervisor may have 230 total hours, all piston, and it still doesn't change the reality of my job. Sure, I may not like that the manager has no idea what he's talking about, but that doesn't affect my career value, which personally I define as my ratio of dollars earned to time away. What does alter the reality of my job is slower career advancement due to UPS having unfettered access to 160+ managers, when the alternative would certainly be adequate staffing.

TrahHauler1 characterized the majority of mangers as untrustworthy scabs. Well, OK, let's pretend they are. Our choice is to have untrustworthy scabs on our seniority list, or untrustworthy scabs off our seniority list. We aren't gaining anything by having them off. In fact, we are worse off, as far as career earnings and quality of life (all seniority-related) with the nearly unlimited productivity of their indentured managers.

Are they untrustworthy scabs? Maybe so, maybe no. Wouldn't you want them to at least have the option of honoring a picket line? Who knows, maybe 2 or 22 or 122 of them would choose to honor one? If it's just one, I'm better off with them on our list.

Does anybody think manager on our seniority be more likely than the average IPA bear to vote in any POS future TA? Not if their take home spelled out in the TA they're voting on.
One thing is for sure...

If they would have been on our list during the '97 strike, they would have been scabs for sure, whereas they could dance around the issue then saying since they had "no choice" and they didn't have numbers they weren't in reality scabs. Primarily they were flying arond in empty airplanes for show, but some volume did move, so I guess it's a point of order for posterity's sake. As for now, all things considered I think it's a good move, but what's to stop these guys from waiving the contract on their own once they're on the list? They would be immune from discipline unless the FAA was involved, unlike us. Anyway you cut it, they will still be far more loyal to the company than the rest of us, but we as a group would get more flying so I see no reason overall to be against this.
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Old 07-26-2007, 09:21 AM
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Anyway you cut it, they will still be far more loyal to the company than the rest of us,
I'm not so sure about that. Probably a few would be. However, I would bet that most of them would not. They would be protected under the contract. I am loyal to the company and do what they expect of me as long as its within the guidelines of the contract. I would anticipate that vast majority of the now managers, if they eventually fall onto the seniority list under the IPA contract, would do the same.
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Old 07-27-2007, 07:05 AM
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Also, we can't afford to have almost ten percent of our pilot force runing around outside of the contract as super reserves with no workrules. Not so nice to fly with a guy that just worked an 8 hour desk shift and now must fly 12 or more hours.

Wouldn't that make for a 20 hour duty day, without a required rest period ... just curious ? I am far from a regulation expert ... But 20 hours on the job just doesn't sound safe.


Before accepting a flight assignment, a flight crewmember must be able to prospectively determine that he/she will be able to look back 24 hours from the scheduled completion of each flight segment and find a legally scheduled rest within the previous 24 hours. The regulations allow for a rest to be reduced to eight or nine hours depending on the scheduled flight time. Under no circumstances may a flight crewmember receive less than an eight-consecutive-hour rest within a 24 consecutive-hour period.

To prevent air carriers from assigning non-flight duties during a rest period, the rules contain a provision precluding such conduct. This provision is contained in FAR 121.471(e) and a similar requirement is contained in FAR 135.263(b). FAR 135.263(b) specifically reads:

(b) No certificate holder may assign any flight crewmember to any duty with the certificate holder during any required rest period.
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Old 07-27-2007, 07:12 AM
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20 hours and sometimes more! What is the definition of rest? I don't think that you will find one other than free of duty. Working in the office doesn't count as duty. In fairness, I don't want the FAA to specify just what I can do before a flight, i.e. must I be lying down for 8 hours of my last off day, but by the same token the company has taken advantadge of these people and it has become out of hand. Not so bad lately as they have been flying so much that they haven't been able to do the office work. Which raises another question. If you can afford to have so many guys flying full time under th eguise as managers, do you really need them to staff the office at all? Probably not.
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