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Joined APC: Nov 2012
Position: B-777 Captain
Posts: 99
At least at Atlas our EXCO fought tooth and nail for five years. Ultimately, we were limited by the confines of the RLA and binding arbitration. But we shot for the stars. I fully support 2750 and and thank them for getting us what they were able to. Even now, our stewards are very proactive at contract compliance. Very often they’ll contact the pilot to tell them a violation took place and they should grieve it.
#4
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Joined APC: Dec 2021
Posts: 414
At least at Atlas our EXCO fought tooth and nail for five years. Ultimately, we were limited by the confines of the RLA and binding arbitration. But we shot for the stars. I fully support 2750 and and thank them for getting us what they were able to. Even now, our stewards are very proactive at contract compliance. Very often they’ll contact the pilot to tell them a violation took place and they should grieve it.
#5
At least at Atlas our EXCO fought tooth and nail for five years. Ultimately, we were limited by the confines of the RLA and binding arbitration. But we shot for the stars. I fully support 2750 and and thank them for getting us what they were able to. Even now, our stewards are very proactive at contract compliance. Very often they’ll contact the pilot to tell them a violation took place and they should grieve it.
#6
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Joined APC: Aug 2023
Posts: 300
At least at Atlas our EXCO fought tooth and nail for five years. Ultimately, we were limited by the confines of the RLA and binding arbitration. But we shot for the stars. I fully support 2750 and and thank them for getting us what they were able to. Even now, our stewards are very proactive at contract compliance. Very often they’ll contact the pilot to tell them a violation took place and they should grieve it.
#8
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Joined APC: Jun 2014
Posts: 1,236
Yeah... Atlas had Alpa throw some bs SCOPE language in their contract that allowed John Dietrich to exploit it so that their pilots haven't voted on a contract in like 20 years... They get forced arbitration that the company wins every time. They finally got the language removed after they rammed their latest contract down their pilots' throats in arbitration and Captains were still leaving left and right.
#10
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Joined APC: Jun 2014
Posts: 1,236
After winning every lawsuit he filed on the issue, John Dietrich forced arbitration on their unions which nearly every pilot in the group was opposed to. They had voted over 99% in favor of a strike (my vote included) and wanted to strike if need be, but that only happens in Section 6. Somewhere along the line so many Southern pilots left that they could no longer staff the airline, so John Dietrich proposed to just put their pilots on Atlas's current contract but the arbitration clause would stand in court. After being forced to give a combined list in another law suit (the contract gave no timeframe for that) the final negotiating started. Any improvement with an economic improvement for the pilots in it was rejected knowing the arbitration judge would ultimately rule in Dietrich's favor. At the end of the negotiating period in the contract, something like 200 items went to the judge for arbitration - an unprecedented number. How's that for negotiating in good faith? The judge ruled almost all of it in the company's favor and for the pay rates added like $2 an hour to the company's proposed rates when the union was probably $50 an hour apart.
That's what happened at Atlas. John Dietrich literally won so big that pilots were still leaving Atlas left and right. He was forced to renegotiate again in a few months and make enough concessions to their union to prevent the Captains from all leaving. Make ZERO mistake about it that arbitration was 100% forced upon their group. They wanted Section 6 and were forced into their merger language which ended in arbitration.
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