Ad posee
I do not wish to get into a p!ssing contest with you and rather than dissect your comments line by line I wish to focus on your statement that the D&Gs upheld that Freighter PX'ing is a breach of COS and how this relates to on-shoring.
Firstly, in his email the GMA makes no admission regarding our COS. I have not read the exact basis of the CP747 D&G decisions. However, I am prepared to accept, for the sake of this debate, that the 747 Fleet Office ruled that Freighter PX'ing is a breach of COS.
You and many others trumpet the virtue of Canadian and OZ labour laws. To the best of my knowledge, and I am sure that you and many others will shout "wrong" if this is not true, Canadian and OZ pilots have been rostered to PX on the Freighter for the past decade and throughout the entire on-shoring process. They may not have liked it, nor agreed it, but it has happened in clear and willful breach of their COS despite these gilt-edged and First-World labour laws.
Now you and many others blandly say that the COS cannot be changed during on-shoring. That maybe so, however this is not a matter of changing the COS, but upholding and adhering to the COS. Alternatively, are you arguing that because the company abused the COS before on-shoring, they can do so during on-shoring. Is this really what First-World good faith labour bargaining looks like?
Finally, you shouted "wrong" when I said the position of the OZ and Canadian pilots on 1 July is unclear. I paraphrased that straight out of the GMA's email. So please enlighten me, where in GMA's email does he say that the OZ and Canadian crews will not continue to be Freighter PX'ed post 1st July?
PS. As to your final remark about the " polite request". How much did Dicky Hall pay you to write that patronizing nonsense?
Firstly, CC "generously" granting your grovelling request to abide by the terms of your COS probably sees you lose your Credit Hours. Secondly, if you seriously believe this whole issue of poor, inefficient rostering, often resulting in 24+ hours in an aircraft and playing boy scout in the back of a freighter can be resolved by a "polite request", you are delusional. Keep drinking the Koolaid buddy!!
Last edited by Liam Gallagher; 24th May 2012 at 06:02.