Overage days are declared in PBS during the bid, and can be seen on your results tab.

Basically, when a coverage day is declared, they disregard your bid for that day, and put you to work. Happened in March and April, completely disregarded what I bid for, and forced me into what the company wanted. To make matters worse, when the bids were released, the days I wanted off were green, as well as the days I was forced to work (mostly Fr-Mo).

If the company keeps this up, it will totally negate being able to bid 17 days in a row when 25.R goes into effect.

 

The one ALPA guy that did respond to me claimed they had to keep the coverage green “so the 48-hour window has purpose”
Let me rephrase that: they keep the reserve grid green (thereby denying weekend days off that I might have been able to hold) so senior guys who already had the chance to bid their best schedule in the first round, get a 2nd opportunity to fix their schedule (normally dropping weekend trips turning the RSV grid red long before it gets to me) before I do which cements my crappy RSV schedule forcing me to trans-con commute every week for 3 or 4 days of RSV over the weekends.
Last I checked, union dues was coming out of my paycheck as well. So that leaves me with this question: how senior do I have to get before ALPA cares about my QOL?
Before anyone says it: yes I’ve communicated all this to ALPA and have received no response.

 

This is infuriating. I’ve often wondered the same regarding green grids for days I bid off.

 

No wonder my award completely sucked.

 

And hence the reason of the OP, to see if it is system-wide, or only a few cases. Since ALPA seems to not want to give answers to those who have asked.