Yeah, the typical fly it and grieve it approach, which essentially means the company can abuse things now and pay up later. Personally I am more of the dont fly it and let them grieve it mentality but hey, what do I know.

My suggestion, just do it and hope the union gets around to it later. Given this is a state issued directive I dont think you will have much wiggle room on it.

This fly it and grieve it thing gets old!

Me!? I ain’t doing it

This!!!! Filler

Where do I submit my 30 min of work for my Illinois required training? Half joking...

There is an RF for taxi time. Test the waters, report back.

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File a wage complaint with the State of Illinois. https://www2.illinois.gov/idol/Pages/Complaints.aspx

It's funny, when I started at Eagle the union used to tell us to tell them, show me where in the contract I'm obligated to do that? When they couldn't it became, well if I'm not obligated then it's just a request, and I'm not agreeing to the request.
If they pointed to some section that was uber vague and they were taking liberties, we were told to remind them they aren't your supervisor, and to request to be connected to a chief pilot who would make the call. Always remain polite.
Somehow, somewhere it became fly it and grieve it.... never ever understood that. If the CBA was clear, then you weren't obligated. seemed pretty simple. The unclear ones, the Chief Pilot would tell you to do it and then you'd fly it and grieve it. Scheduling was/is not a supervisor.... (at least they used to not be)

No, it did not become that. What you say is exactly how it is today. Tell CS to pound sand, but if CPO tells you to do it, you do it.
Fly it and grieve it happens at every airline.

I am not wanting to start a riot or anything over this, more just thought provoking conversation.

Isn't this mindset though giving all the power to the company? I mean listen, most CPO's are going to side with management if it comes down to something operational, even if it is against the CBA or in a grey area. This leaves the door open for us to be taken advantage of in terms of schedule, qol etc. I understand if we are in the right we can still get paid, perhaps get a day off back etc, however we still need to put in all that extra work and time to get what was originally ours back.

To me that seems unfair and has potential to really cause people angst if the right circumstances come up. I mean, what if I have an event I am needed at but the company decides they need me, even though I am legal to say no the CPO tells me to fly it anyway. I guess I just don't understand the mentality, if I know I am right, why do I have to do it?

At the end of the day the company isn't going to let me do things the contract doesn't allow, so why should we allow the same liberties to them? I know this are rare circumstances, but it is worth having a conversation about them nonetheless.