UAL LEC 34 sells out 1437 brethren
And CAL's as well. Unbelievable. May as well take off your uniform now and put on your suit and tie and report to Chigaco HQ for your new management position.
Further, they violate CAL's contractual scope clause which has not been terminated nor amended by any legal authority due to a corporate merger. It remains in effect until a JCBA says it doesn't.
CAL recalled pilots due to outsourced flying? You have got to be kidding. That line was sold to CAL pilots 10 years ago. 274 50-seat RJs later and hiring stop dead-cold. That was something like 8 years ago. CAL furloughs were punishment for CAL MEC refusing JV flying (Aer Lingus ring a bell?). Their recalls are because CAL flat out can't fly the schedule anymore without them.
Wake up. Outsourced flying never returns to you, and never creates mainline jobs. I hope you don't have to go through 10 years of what CAL pilots went through to realize this.
And CAL's as well. Unbelievable. May as well take off your uniform now and put on your suit and tie and report to Chigaco HQ for your new management position.
The 70-seaters are not United flights. They are outsourced flights that put 1437 of your brethren on the street. I'm sure the UAL '98 hire is pleased to hear you fully support their continued pain.UAL Council 34
By now you have heard of plans by the new United Airlines to operate some 70-seat United Express flights out of Continental hub cities. This has been characterized by some as an intentional action on the part of management meant to insult the pilot group. You should be assured that this is not the case.
Now that the corporate merger has closed, United Airlines is one company operating two separate airlines. This is an arrangement we are obligated to maintain until we reach a joint Collective Bargaining Agreement, until ALPA completes the seniority integration of the CAL and UAL pilot groups, and until we obtain a single operating certificate from the FAA. The provisions of the CBA recognize this transition period and allow cooperation with United flights, whether it be for a United flight they have chosen to operate with a 150-seat jet or for a flight United has chosen to operate with a 70-seat jet.
Further, they violate CAL's contractual scope clause which has not been terminated nor amended by any legal authority due to a corporate merger. It remains in effect until a JCBA says it doesn't.
"We" are working? You got a mouse in your pocket? You are not 70-seaters. You are mainline. "They" are management, using 70-seaters to take your flying from you, and now you are helping them to take flying from CAL.We are working to optimize our combined network in order to increase our feeds through the hubs. This feed will flow onto larger mainline jets and create jobs for mainline pilots in larger aircraft – it is part of a strategy that allowed Continental to offer recall to all 148 pilots we had on furlough. We are using the assets available to the new United to enhance your future, not harm it.
The Company believes that optimizing our network in this way does not violate the contract– we would not do it if we thought it did.
CAL recalled pilots due to outsourced flying? You have got to be kidding. That line was sold to CAL pilots 10 years ago. 274 50-seat RJs later and hiring stop dead-cold. That was something like 8 years ago. CAL furloughs were punishment for CAL MEC refusing JV flying (Aer Lingus ring a bell?). Their recalls are because CAL flat out can't fly the schedule anymore without them.
Wake up. Outsourced flying never returns to you, and never creates mainline jobs. I hope you don't have to go through 10 years of what CAL pilots went through to realize this.
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