On another forum you will see some distinct cracks forming in the QF pilot solidarity front.
Looks like AIPA might be spending more and more time holding their own line together. Just what the Company wants!
We have to be careful not to take our eye off the ball with individual grievances, I know the current situation is a bitter pill to swallow and there is going to be a lot of us disadvantaged through this RIN process, some definitely more than others, but we have to stay united and support AIPA, they are our elected representative members and although individually we might not agree with them on certain perspectives and interpretations now is not the time to become fragmented, we must stay united.
The company are painting us in a corner with vague interpretations and misleading information (think Q14 Q&A RIN, it's purely a loaded and antagonistic Q&A to get a response) to force us to run off to FWA and do their dirty work for them (the company don't want to be seen as the ones to lodge the grievance to FWA, they want to be seen as the victim). The more individual grievances presented on a fractured front to FWA will just highlight the companies position that the current WD is unworkable and how costly this RIN process will be. Ultimately FWA will consider the viability and the financial strain placed upon the employer so there will be more chance that the pendulum will swing well and truly to the companies favour and then we can kiss goodbye
any opportunity to negotiate from our current base (present WD) for efficiencies for offsets in the future.
Don't forget the company already have a blueprint of an award that they would like us to adopt, and the front cover is coloured Orange and Silver, we have been seeing it coming for a while but I think it's now at our door.
Lets not jump the gun and remove our elected representatives from the table, lets not rush off to FWA, let's stay in the game.
Don't play into the companies hands.