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Yup. I heard on the radio (also NPR) that the union expects flights to be cancelled. And the union seems to be laughing ("Santa Claus giving everyone the day o
by rconti 9y ago
Yup. I heard on the radio (also NPR) that the union expects flights to be cancelled.
And the union seems to be laughing ("Santa Claus giving everyone the day off") about the problem.
And the union contract prevents paying more than 150% to fill the slots.
Yeah, this will go well.
- rev_bird 9y agoSo the company approves vacation time for its employees, then wants to take it away because they don't know how to use a calendar, and you're blaming the union for the entire thing?
- RHSeeger 9y agoMistakes were made, and it's not unreasonable to expect both sides to work together to serve the "greater good" (getting people where they need to go during the holidays) instead of just saying "you made a mistake, screw everyone who has their plans ruined".
- rconti 9y agoThe airline made an honest mistake (clearly they didn't want this to happen), and the union laughs in their faces and the contract they pushed prevents the airline from doing more to remedy the situation. I'm obviously blaming the airline first. But the obvious remedy is to pay the pilots even more than 150%. I wonder what the ultimate solution will be. Maybe it'll be easier to weasel out of it by yanking vacation from employees than simply paying 300% (or something).
- bildung 9y ago> And the union contract prevents paying more than 150% to fill the slots. Without having seen that contract, this is almost guaranteed to be false. Most probably the contracts prevents the union to demand more than 150%, but of course the airline is still free to voluntarily pay more than that. This is just a (successful, it seems) PR spin of the situation.