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Once - yes I agree, twice - lets give them the benefit of the doubt, but dozens and dozens of times over years - not buying it.
You totally downplay the company asking for ways to mitigate this in the future:
"They can propose anything that they want."
I will hope every DAL Pilot will remember that the next time they have to verify a sick call at great inconvenience or some guy gets the run around trying to put in for legitimate MIL LV.
There is a reason our contract went downhill in these areas - it is not hypothetical. Stand by for reserve going downhill also.
I normally agree with your posts, so much so that someone once joked we were one and the same, but I respectfully disagree with you 100% on this issue.
Scoop
We simply have to defend the pilots in question on this type of nonsense. Retroactive digital footprints that fail to prove an affirmative defense after the fact is simply an indefensible way to go after anyone, even if they probably deserve it.Originally Posted by Scoop
So if every time they actually showed up in base they leave a digital trail - dozens and dozens of times - every time, but they show zero for short call times, you call that barely circumstantial? Once - yes I agree, twice - lets give them the benefit of the doubt, but dozens and dozens of times over years - not buying it.
You totally downplay the company asking for ways to mitigate this in the future:
"They can propose anything that they want."
I will hope every DAL Pilot will remember that the next time they have to verify a sick call at great inconvenience or some guy gets the run around trying to put in for legitimate MIL LV.
There is a reason our contract went downhill in these areas - it is not hypothetical. Stand by for reserve going downhill also.
I normally agree with your posts, so much so that someone once joked we were one and the same, but I respectfully disagree with you 100% on this issue.
Scoop
Process matters, and its simply asinine to discipline someone because they lack a provable affirmative defense. We cannot tolerate that, not now not ever. If someone is a punk (thief, dirt bag, low life, etc) and they acknowledge SC knowing there is zero chance they can make it, I have little sympathy for them and think they should be punished. But this is not the way.
Make a (fair and reasonable, but appropriate) example out of those special few who walked that tightrope without a net and fell. But a "you couldn't retroactively prove you commuted in the past therefore you're fired" is an attack so heinous and unreasonable that if we didn't defend it, we'd be coughing up some serious DRF dues in those guy's future suits against the association.
This is so clear and obvious and egregious even the least competent, over worked, mentally checked out, bow tie wearing, pony tail public defender would be all over it. ALPA has to be too, because they can not be allowed to go after anyone, for anything, in this fashion.