404 Titan has it exactly correct. If they want to continue hiring DEFO, or extending captains beyond age 55, then so be it. My contract states very clearly that in these instances, I, as well as many others, will receive bypass pay to compensate. Now the union is negotiating to change this? Why? What are we going to gain that will make up the difference for the loss of this section? I highly doubt I, or many others, will make as much as under a new contract as the current B scale. And no, I didn't join under the ban either.
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