NPA playing Hardball to Airtran

[scarlet]

NPA is enforcing the reduction notice !!!

Making the company do all that training.

The company can not just cancel a final award.

The company now has to post a vacancy award.

The company never called th NPA and made them aware of the intent on cancelling the award=Airtran has no respect for NPA...MAybe Dec 24th we should give them the respect and spend time with your family !!!!

 

[scarlet]

The NPA is in receipt of the Company’s letter dated 3 December 2008 from Jim Tabor regarding the planned increase in aircraft utilization and the cancellation of RN08-12.

At first glance, this appears to be positive news for those pilots affected by the Reduction Notice as well as those furloughed pilots who may be recalled. Unfortunately it isn’t that simple.

The NPA’s position is that the CBA does not provide for any method for the Company to cancel a properly posted award and should execute the Reduction Award 08-12. In order to adequately staff the airline for the increased flying, the CBA dictates the need to post a Vacancy Award for the open positions, to be filled in seniority order by active pilots on the AirTran Master Seniority List, with any remaining positions to be filled by furloughed pilots and then new-hires, in accordance with LOA 9 and Section 17 of the CBA.

We understand that this may cause some downgraded Captains to be unable to hold their former position in the resulting Vacancy Award.
We would like to remind all pilots to update both their voluntary and involuntary bids in the Master System Bid menu in FLiCA in anticipation of the Vacancy Award. The NPA is aware that this option is not currently available and we are addressing these concerns with Management in order to get this matter resolved in a timely manner. It is the responsibility of the NPA to represent the interests of all AirTran pilots, actively flying and currently on furlough.

 

[CatfishVT9]

And you just HAD TO post this to tell the world? Twit.

 

[scarlet]

Yeah the pilots are so informed...Look at the voting and how that is going. JOKE of pilot group.

 

[tubelcane]

Everyone on the NPA site is blasting them for this except for one guy. I think they should have to do it per the contract if that costs them, so be it. The displaced capt's have nobody to blame but "the best management team in the industry." Maybe if they had included the NPA instead of sidestepping them this would'nt have happened.

 

[Captain Jeff]

Do what the contract says..... Or create LOA 10....

 

[Whine Lover]

OOooo...YAY! NPA! UNION MIGHT! TAKIN' IT BACK!

Jack Off Klown.

Kill yourself now.


Love and Merry Christmas You Farkin' Joke(s),


YKMKR

( This from a former Union Negotiator who learned a simple, horrible, TRUTH...Pilots are Morons. "Death to the "Profession". )

 

[twepilot]

"Maybe if they had included the NPA instead of sidestepping them this would'nt have happened."

Thank you!

RV

when are these Jagoffs going to realize the value of their employees? TREAT US AS AN ASSET, NOT A LIABILITY. Ya' freakin Jagoffs

RV

 

[Gate 69]

So, the company finally does something good and cancels the displacement, and our NPA BOD cries "foul ball, you should have told us first", at the expense of 35 dues paying pilots. That'll teach 'em!

and you wonder why no one bothers to vote.

 

[Captain Jeff]

The company didn't do something good. They violated the contact again. You just happen to like the way it was violated.

Don't get me wrong. I would like to see everyone stay where they are, but I would also like to see this scummy company get a huge training bill. Like it or not, we have to use this huge bill as leverage.