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Old 05-24-2014, 08:47 AM
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Please educate the active duty USAF pilot who is getting ready to transition to the civilian flying world.

If the FQS positions are so full of controversy, then why doesn't the union go to the mat with management during the next contract negotiations?
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Please educate the active duty USAF pilot who is getting ready to transition to the civilian flying world.

If the FQS positions are so full of controversy, then why doesn't the union go to the mat with management during the next contract negotiations?
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Please educate the active duty USAF pilot who is getting ready to transition to the civilian flying world.

If the FQS positions are so full of controversy, then why doesn't the union go to the mat with management during the next contract negotiations?
Unlike say the UAW or a public sector union the RLA is very restrictive on labor and as such Management has the bigger hammer. The only going to the mat is essentially agreeing to binding arbitration or waiting 10 years to get permission to strike.
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Old 05-24-2014, 09:18 AM
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Oh yea, now I remember that from my first class in av management. Very restrictive and hard to justify a strike.

On the surface it seems simple enough, the use of the FQS, but since they lack credibility it seems such a position is only being used to undermine the power of the IPA (even if they did agree to it) and therefore the QOL of the line pilots as a whole.

You know, an idea is a dangerous thing, and if the internal support is there to make the vote happen. Batten down the hatches and get ready to go to war, so to speak.

When is the next round of contract negotiations supposed to start?
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Originally Posted by jkhill0 View Post
Oh yea, now I remember that from my first class in av management. Very restrictive and hard to justify a strike.

On the surface it seems simple enough, the use of the FQS, but since they lack credibility it seems such a position is only being used to undermine the power of the IPA (even if they did agree to it) and therefore the QOL of the line pilots as a whole.

You know, an idea is a dangerous thing, and if the internal support is there to make the vote happen. Batten down the hatches and get ready to go to war, so to speak.

When is the next round of contract negotiations supposed to start?
We've been in negotiations for over two years. The RLA is antiquated, and favors the company. If you get bored, research it's beginnings and scope and it will become glaringly apparent. The RLA is especially crippling in the dynamic between a Goliath like UPS, with massive longstanding relationships on K Street in DC and virtually unlimited resources against an independent in-house union. That being said we hold our own due to our unrivaled unity ironically solidified by UPS' management style. UPS is a "funny" bunch...I've lost count how often they've stepped over dollars to pick up dimes.
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