right.....dangle a dollar in font of us and all professionalism goes out the window. I HATE it and 100% agree with your statement, but that is the nature of the beast. I see it too often.

 

There has been a lot of discussion on this sight about wether FNWA guys "lost" their accrued sick leave in the merger. That is a different topic. I had 1700+ hours of sick leave in the bank at the time. I always viewed it as an insurance policy for my later years. I can say that it was my experience that I never flew with anyone who came to work sick so as not to use their bank.
I wish I had had it when I had Achilles surgery in 2010 and was out for 6 mos. and had to rely on DPMA to come even close to my normal monthly pay.

 

It really bothers me that the MEC dropped the "Restoration" theme that many of the new reps and the new Chairman ran for election under. They seem to have completely forgotten about all the concessions we already gave the company in 2004+2006, and they won't even talk about restoring the DB plan. Much of those concessions are still in effect today, the company is earning unheard of billions, returning 70% of free cash flow to the shareholders, the majority of whom are Management, yet the MEC has never put together the amount of Billions that the PILOTS have given to the company!

Without a list of ongoing concessions and the cost savings to the company for same, why on earth are they considering giving the company MORE concessions??

In this round of negotiations, we should only be talking about RESTORING what we already gave away, now that those concessions are no longer needed to Save Delta.

 

You obviously do not fly narrowbody because you would know your statement is 100% false..Guys fly sick all the time. I see it a lot. It would only get worse if we got paid for unused sick time. I do see you wrote "SHOULDN'T", and not "DON'T" in your post.

 

Because of this, your suggestion is to keep our crappy sick leave system?

The company wanted a use it or lose it system and now they are trying to punish us for using it. They could fix the problem over night if they would let us bank sick. Instead they are going the aggressive route of punishment and restrictions. Not very smart.

 

I totally agree with your the beginning of your post. Flown with many who've had the same problem. We need a system that banks/pays unused sick so you can use it when you really get sick. Talk to the guys living on a fraction of their monthly pay after a long battle with a terrible disease. One of the top issues in my survey. We need it yesterday. Sick leave is not personal time.

 

working anymore than we already do is an Automatic 'NO'

 

I refer back to my earlier post. Why not implement a system whereby we can get "xxx" amount of hours of non-verified sick time for the sniffles, $hit$ and strains (80-100 hours per year as an example) which resets on your hire date AND a short term disability plan that pays 100% of lost wages (ALV/Reserve Guarantee) for the period you are out?

Rather than having 240-300 hours of non-bankable sick time with stupid verification rules, you get, let's say 100 hours per year and, if you have the need for something more serious/ longer stretch, you invoke ST disability at 100% of your wages (rather than the current 50%). ST disability, by its nature, will require verification...as it should. (And, for the record, long-term disability also needs to be worked on).

Ready for incoming flaming....

 

IF.....IF it's a warmed over NA15 I don't care who Fd it up. That confirms that the system is broken.

Buh Bye ALPA.

 

Varys' little birds tell him this is exactly what happened at the latest MEC meeting...