2015 Fleet Service thread

[Worldport]

Until the Monster actually comes out from under my bed to try and scare me, I'm still going to turn the lights out, close my eyes and get a good nights sleep.

But that's me.
 

By then it might be to late. I like to be prepared. Check under your bed

 

[WeAAsles]

By then it might be to late. I like to be prepared. Check under your bed

I did. No boogey man.

 

[dfw gen]

I'm actually considering taking the plan if offered to me. But as you can tell I have a plan on how to use it. And if the contributions are increased why not give it a chance IMO.

Spoken like a true candidate.

 

[WeAAsles]

Spoken like a true candidate.

It's called diversifying your retirement portfolio. 2 Pensions, an IRA, Stock, 401K, Social Security and a Condo.

I don't intend on being here when I can hardly walk anymore personally.

 

[Salty Dog]

Do the guys from US still have any retire medical?

Losing it at AA is a bummer!

 

[Ramp Rogue]

This question is for LUS, but if LAA can answer it for your side, have at it. My station bids vacation with the fulltimers & parttimers on separate bids. Also ramp and cargo bid separately. Is this how it is done in your station? I've heard that in some stations, that there is only one bid with everyone thrown in it by seniority.
 
Rogue.....

 

[Jester]

This question is for LUS, but if LAA can answer it for your side, have at it. My station bids vacation with the fulltimers & parttimers on separate bids. Also ramp and cargo bid separately. Is this how it is done in your station? I've heard that in some stations, that there is only one bid with everyone thrown in it by seniority.
 
Rogue.....

 
Doesn't kinda make sense to do it that way as to avoid too many full-time people being off the same week, such that vacation relief  people cannot cover?  Just as much as cargo needs to have cargo qualified people, as well? I would imagine the higher seniority people are full-time, so you want them to be able to bid what would be lower seniority, part-time vacation lines?

 

[robbedagain]

Rogue, in my station we all bid by seniority i thought that is the way its suppose to be. Its not separate pt/ft our vac is also done the same way

 

[mike33]

Rogue, in my station we all bid by seniority i thought that is the way its suppose to be. Its not separate pt/ft our vac is also done the same way

How big is your station. If its small then sure put everyone together, but Jester is right..........

 

[robbedagain]

we have 10 leads, 50 FT timers and 20 PT   not counting one of the FT is transferring to DC    and flight wise we have over 100 flights a week not counting the charter   Id say if you had to compare  we'd probably be like ATL

 

[cltrat]

question for LAA side on vacations do the people with 5 6 weeks whatever it is bid all 6 at once or is it done in rounds?

 

[700UW]

How they do it wont effect you, you will have to see whats in the JCBA.

 

[AANOTOK]

We do it all at once rat

 

[Kev3188]

question for LAA side on vacations do the people with 5 6 weeks whatever it is bid all 6 at once or is it done in rounds?

Doing it in rounds sucks. Jmho...

 

[WeAAsles]

Well here we are, day 1. We all should show support and solidarity to our negotiators who did a lot of hard work taking items from 2 contracts, writing in items from contracts outside of ours, and even coming up with some of their own ideas to present to the company. I'll say now that I'm fortunate on having friends on the TWU side and have made friends with others who are on the IAM side that will be sitting at the table across from the company. Yes early on there was some contention in trying to figure things out and learning to see the other sides perspective for items they preferred to keep. But those issues were put to bed quite awhile back and they all got together on the same page to craft a great first proposal to present to the company. The negotiators are unified and I'll even say that I think some of them are going to become long term friends.

While I wasn't given any precise details as to what is in the first proposal, I was assured that it's a great starting point recognizing the extraordinary profits the company is currently making and is projected to continue making. I have complete faith that these men are extremely prepared for whatever angles the company tries to throw at them and will bring us back something that we can give our approval too.

How long this might take though? That depends on both our negotiators and the company side really taking this seriously and wanting to get this done? The company played chess with the pilots, FA's and now the agents and if they try to do the same with out negotiators I don't think they'll enjoy that game.

The Association said there will be updates after that initial first proposal. So let's have just a little bit more patience and see what that means and what they plan to share?

I'm looking forward to those updates.

Peace Brothers and Sisters.