Scope is the most valuable aspect of any labor contract. Without scope a labor contract is worthless. Polars crewmembers faught hard for its labor protective provisions, calling a strike in 1999 to get it and a fair quality of life contract. Cato and AAWH want nothing to do with such a contract and have worked diligently to pit these two pilot groups against each other.
Scope, I don't disagree. Let's see. A strike in 1999. Yep, for a couple hours. Your right. But, you were dealing with a management that knew they were going to sell you pretty soon. That was tough? We on the other hand were dealing with an anti-labor management and a guy named Cato, post 9/11, and had some folks talking about flying our planes. Yep, our contract ended up with nice pay, s**ty work rules.
Prater and the Atlas MEC have no business mettling in the Polar pilots rights. Shame on them. The Atlas MEC needs to get some coconuts and fight for a respectable contract on there own and stop kissing managements bums. An piece of the Polar scope provision follows and seems very clear.
I think Prater is paying the bills, so yes, he has some rights. If Polar was paying assessments, I bet the Polar MEC would work a little harder at making deals vs going to arbitration on
everything. I believe he mentioned that the Polar/Atlas stuff was over $670K. BTW, how are your sec. 6 negotiations going? Your contract has been open for amendment now for almost a year?