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MEC CODE-A-PHONE UPDATE
July 22, 2003
This is MEC Chairman Bill Pollock with a US Airways MEC update for Tuesday, July 22.
Management is distributing, in crew room mailboxes, form letters soliciting pilot responses to various scheduling or training events recorded in your line by crew schedulers. This form letter contains items for you to respond to that the Company is not contractually entitled to receive. It appears that management wants pilots to incriminate themselves for possible disciplinary action and to set up a process that would allow them to exceed the limitations placed on them by our Contract.
Your chief pilots have become accomplices to this activity by signing and distributing this form, knowing that the demanded information exceeds the Company’s contractual rights. We are advising all pilots to not complete and submit these forms to your chief pilots without first contacting the Contract Hotline or your local council representative for assistance.
To aggravate this situation, pilots have reported that LGA / BOS chief pilot, Captain Ed Schmidt, is in crew rooms putting out false information on your contractual responsibilities and requesting you to comply with additional requirements not contained in your working agreement.
For example, pilots have reported that Captain Schmidt is claiming that there is a requirement that you sign in for your trip. There is no such requirement in the pilots working agreement. You cannot be disciplined for failing to sign in for a trip. Pilots have also reported receiving misinformation regarding the requirements for producing a doctor’s note. A doctor’s note must be requested from you at the time you call in sick, not afterwards. Also there is no requirement that such a note be specific to anything regarding your illness.
This form letter from your chief pilots is attempting to achieve rights for the Company that management was unable to obtain at the bargaining table. Please do not fall into the trap of allowing the Company to use your responses to exceed its contractual limitations or expose you to arbitrary disciplinary action.
The form letter is an attempt to intimidate pilots and cirxxxvent your contractual rights. The Association is vigorously challenging its use and content. We need your help by allowing us to centralize and coordinate the responses to protect and enforce your contractual rights.
The Contract Hotline can be reached through the MEC office at 800 USAIR MEC.
Please remember, we have 1,879 pilots on furlough.
Thank you for listening.
July 22, 2003
This is MEC Chairman Bill Pollock with a US Airways MEC update for Tuesday, July 22.
Management is distributing, in crew room mailboxes, form letters soliciting pilot responses to various scheduling or training events recorded in your line by crew schedulers. This form letter contains items for you to respond to that the Company is not contractually entitled to receive. It appears that management wants pilots to incriminate themselves for possible disciplinary action and to set up a process that would allow them to exceed the limitations placed on them by our Contract.
Your chief pilots have become accomplices to this activity by signing and distributing this form, knowing that the demanded information exceeds the Company’s contractual rights. We are advising all pilots to not complete and submit these forms to your chief pilots without first contacting the Contract Hotline or your local council representative for assistance.
To aggravate this situation, pilots have reported that LGA / BOS chief pilot, Captain Ed Schmidt, is in crew rooms putting out false information on your contractual responsibilities and requesting you to comply with additional requirements not contained in your working agreement.
For example, pilots have reported that Captain Schmidt is claiming that there is a requirement that you sign in for your trip. There is no such requirement in the pilots working agreement. You cannot be disciplined for failing to sign in for a trip. Pilots have also reported receiving misinformation regarding the requirements for producing a doctor’s note. A doctor’s note must be requested from you at the time you call in sick, not afterwards. Also there is no requirement that such a note be specific to anything regarding your illness.
This form letter from your chief pilots is attempting to achieve rights for the Company that management was unable to obtain at the bargaining table. Please do not fall into the trap of allowing the Company to use your responses to exceed its contractual limitations or expose you to arbitrary disciplinary action.
The form letter is an attempt to intimidate pilots and cirxxxvent your contractual rights. The Association is vigorously challenging its use and content. We need your help by allowing us to centralize and coordinate the responses to protect and enforce your contractual rights.
The Contract Hotline can be reached through the MEC office at 800 USAIR MEC.
Please remember, we have 1,879 pilots on furlough.
Thank you for listening.
