This dispute is not about pay or working conditions. It's about respect. EI pilots have none from management. They plough through the agreements and refuse to engage in meaningful negotiations.. .1600 weeks outstanding leave. That's 40 pilot jobs.. .40 copilots should have commmand by now (to help reduce the leave bill among other reasons); 40 extra jobs for copilots.. ."Work practice" changes give no monetary saving to EI; it only gives them the opportunity to flaunt their already inept rostering system.. .A job and work security agreement where several clauses must be fulfilled (by both sides) before the route of compulsory redundancies is tackled. The company have helpfully ignored most of these clauses.. .Absolute stonewalling at the idea of jointly determining the requirement for pilot numbers in EI.. .No williingness by management to benchmark their pilots' productivity against ANY other airline.. .In other areas in the airline where the voluntary take up has not been sufficient no compulsory notice has been served; those people now check punters in every day of the week.. .Pilots have not rejected the survival plan unlike some other groups.. .A company that reads "interim" changes as permanent.
Where do you draw the line? When do you make a stand? Are these enough examples? Does any pilot reading this not think their job (and QUALITY of job) is worth fighting for?