FDX-Personal Travel thru Global Travel
10-20-2013, 02:22 PM
#11
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2007
Position: MD11 FO, ANC
Posts: 1,098
Originally Posted by TonyC
ALPA stood up to The Company and pointed out that they cannot arbitrarily impose testing requirements on pilots without negotiating a change to our CBA.
No, wait, sorry, that didn't happen. I was dreaming. We were in "Interim Discussions." ALPA stood by and did nothing. Go along to get along.
When?
That would be the first CBA, some 15 years ago.
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I guess you HAVE moved on and are "adding substance" to the current discussion.....disregard
10-20-2013, 02:47 PM
#12
Organizational Learning
Joined APC: Nov 2005
Position: Directly behind the combiner
Posts: 4,948
Originally Posted by AFW_MD11
seriously? ok, my bad.....I thought your disparaging remarks about our union were intended for the current union leadership, not the ones 15 years ago.
I guess you HAVE moved on and are "adding substance" to the current discussion.....disregard
Interline travel was part of the original CBA negotiated in the winter of '98 and effective 31 May 99. If you still have your paper copy in the little white binder, turn to page 26-5 and you'll see it there. Mind you, that's the CBA that was dictated to the FPA after the parking lot capitulation.
The same paragraph is still there in our current CBA.
When The Company unilaterally changed that CBA benefit, our current MEC leadership said nothing. Which is odd, being that the union's number one priority is defending the CBA.
Oh, well, I guess it didn't affect you.
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10-20-2013, 03:59 PM
#13
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I'm sure that an argument could be made that "privileges generally afforded or available to full-time Company employees and their families" could be interpreted to include the requirements necessary to be eligible for those privileges.
10-20-2013, 04:23 PM
#14
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Originally Posted by MX727
I'm sure that an argument could be made that "privileges generally afforded or available to full-time Company employees and their families" could be interpreted to include the requirements necessary to be eligible for those privileges.
Congratulations, you've just been nominated to join The Company's Labor Relations attorneys in negotiating against the pilots!
The test is not "Consistent with the Company's interline agreements with other carriers". The Company can unilaterally impose new rules on other employees -- they are not protected by a contract. The Company does want those other employees to see pilots being treated differently, because they then might see the benefit of organizing and want a union of their own. So they unilaterally impose the same new rules on pilots.
And rather than defend our contract, we go along to get along.
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10-21-2013, 06:17 AM
#15
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Originally Posted by TonyC
Congratulations, you've just been nominated to join The Company's Labor Relations attorneys in negotiating against the pilots
Last edited by MX727; 10-21-2013 at 06:53 AM.
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