If this has been already discussed, I apologize but I haven’t read anything about this till now.

From the MEC CON statement:

“COVID MOU Cancellation
This TA has done nothing to improve any aspect of our sick time language. In fact, it will terminate the protections from the initial COVID MOU dating back to March 14, 2020 and will force a pilot who contracts COVID, or who has a household member who contracts COVID, to use their sick time and to quarantine for at least 10 days. With cases of new COVID continuing to plague our pilots, and new variants emerging, to think that it is acceptable to force pilots to use potentially all of their sick time to cover COVID is shocking. Each time a pilot is forced to use their sick time and do the safe, ethical, and responsible thing by staying home for a minimum of 10 days, that pilot will use 50% or more of their annual earned sick time.
This TA is about solving the company’s problems in manpower and training. As an “Add Pay” contract, it gives the company flexibility for manpower, making us a version of seasonal or variablized employees, greatly affecting our quality of life.”

Total BS!

 

This is going to end up with people either not getting tested for or willingly flying with covid.

 

No, not with Covid. They will just be flying with "allergies" or a "minor head hold, but not running a fever" so they aren't contagious

 

When does it go away on its own? A date? Or some trigger?

 

This Memorandum of Understanding shall become effective upon execution and shall remain in effect until such time as the United States Center for Disease Control declares that COVID-19 is no longer an epidemic in the United States,

 

Not bad. That’s got to be worth several hundred if not more sick days a year. We have similar but made it WHO (making it it global), however I believe it’s pandemic not epidemic. Do you think they subtracted the value from the 1.25b? Lol.