CAL Future?

[jonjuan]

Why don't new hires get to vote? Why is it that a 45-year old, retired Air Force pilot who is in his first year of a company he wishes to spend the next 20 years at, not get to vote in a union election which affects his future?

 

[Flopgut]

Have any of you guys considered taking CAL to court over this issue? I think your chances would probably be good of getting these guys kicked off the seniority list with the way the law was written. This is a truly crazy interpretation of the law.

You'd think my union would want to file the lawsuit?! NOPE!! From the MEC Chair: "There's no lawsuit to file Flopgut, the FAA has interpreted it".

 

[Flopgut]

Why don't new hires get to vote? Why is it that a 45-year old, retired Air Force pilot who is in his first year of a company he wishes to spend the next 20 years at, not get to vote in a union election which affects his future?

Because those who's still provisional employment is singuliarly contingent on the company's whim should not be asked to vote under duress.

Even if they're Air Force.