Since the last post on this thread in April I have to say that things at NCA have gone downhill rapidly. As Wavecatcher was saying: they have imposed another three year contract onto us with no improvement to our salaries. This contract runs until 2020 so, in effect, we will not have received a single CPI adjusted pay raise in 10 years, from when we took a 10% pay cut back in summer 2010. Another four captains have walked out on them. The roster now has all the stability of a coke head walking a tightrope, blindfolded - constant changes, minimum rest, never getting home when you think, flight cancellations, it is utter chaos. Don't expect HACS or Parc to step in either, they are not going to bite the hand that feeds them.
To top it all we have a company nurse who takes great, sadistic pleasure in going through your medical, the JCAB medical that you have passed, & forcing you into various unneeded procedures just because she can. She emailed one guy, said that I hope you're ok but you're off the roster because we've found a brain tumor. He went through a couple of weeks of living hell before being given the all clear! There never was any suggestion of such a condition, she got it wrong!!!
To recap - no roster stability, treated like a second-class citizen to the Japanese, ever declining pay, cheaper & cheaper hotels, served dog food for crew meals, commercial deadhead in the cheapest seats that they can find, absolute zero regard to fatigue, a lunatic company nurse, the list goes on & on....Tragic that such a great job, in a good company, has been trashed by lousy NYK penny-pinching management.
