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subsidized because the retiree medical follows the PMNW contracts? If so, then heck yes... that could be worth a fortune over a lifetime.
And so Project Visine continues...
Though it's probably not anyone at DL or PMNW that is crying.And so Project Visine continues...
I think I just upped my number of potential takers for DL's packages by close to 1000.Yes. Retiree medical is covered in the IAM and AFA CBA's. NW has it, DL doesn't.
no, it's not a fact. You and others believed from the beginning of this merger that DL would ultimately outsource many small stations and that rumor has persisted for years despite the fact that DL has never given any indication that it is true. In fact, DL has repeatedly said that they didn't have plans to outsource small stations. The fact that DL hasn't broken its word just busts your chops.You're obviously right, Tim. The buyouts aren't directly targeted at the red headed step children.
Trying to argue that this is just DL being altruistic is silly. Sure, they're going to look for volunteers first. Every sane HR manager would do likewise.
But when it comes to the involuntary cuts, it doesn't take an academic to read between the lines.
The fully staffed field locations which have had a big red target on them ever since the union votes started. Those stations don't meet DL's staffing model. And they no longer have the constraints of a union contract to deal with.
That's not fear or inaccuracy. It's fact. Perhaps a fact that you don't want to admit, given some of the kum-bay-yah positions taken up until now regarding promises that nobody would lose their job as a result of the merger.
Of course people are skeptical. It's because anyone who has been around has heard that same promise over and over. With very rare exception, Employee Day Two has always turned out to be a far different reality than Employee Day One.
Kev can give us an updated list of non-hub mainline cities
obviously schedules for the fall are still in process but the majority of these markets do not show substantial changes in capacity based on current schedules.MSP
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Kev,
Given that a fence still exists around solely PMNW ramp stations and the rest of the DL system, what are the provisions under the contract should DL decide not to keep a PMNW station? Presumably PMNW rampers would be leveled only into PMNW positions or laid off? And would that layoffs of PMNW employees or closures of PMNW stations be considered a violation of the laboratory conditions if DL closed PMNW stations but not PMDL stations... at least before a final decision is made?
interesting to hear that the fences between workgroups are falling.. .I guess in-flight is the only remaining "hard" fence in that DL and PMNW FAs cannot work the same flight.... correct?There is no fence. PMDL people can bid into what were traditionally NW stations, but the reverse is not true. Obviously, both can bid into a station where both had a presence prior to the merger. DL claims that open positions at any given point willed be filled 50/50 from each "side," but that has absolutely not been the case. Unfortunately, it's another example of the theory espoused being quite different from the theory in use.
Under our CBA, if you're laid off, you can exercise your seniority anywhere on the (PMNW) system you can hold. All 40 stations I listed are "all or nothing." There is no mixing and matching of M/L above wing, and farmed out ramp like at DL. There are also no more cross-utilized (4 hour rule) stations.
All the ones I listed are obviously covered. Some no longer meet the flight threshold required (actually, a few haven't for a long time-even prior to the merger). No they cannot close the ones that still meet the flight levels required.
interesting to hear that the fences between workgroups are falling.. .I guess in-flight is the only remaining "hard" fence in that DL and PMNW FAs cannot work the same flight.... correct?
I'm not surprised that DL is making the fence somewhat like the Berlin Wall... works one way but not so much the other. Guess that the message is that PMNW members will be held to what they signed but won't enjoy anything else if there is any good to be had.
I would presume that DL could have used the language of the CBA to close some stations if it wanted to without violating the contract?
I would also presume that DL decided they don't need either to have people work AW and BW in the same station since DL can create schedules that allow for the flight schedule of each stations since apparently DL's minimums for RRs are quite a bit less than what the IAM-NW CBA allowed... ?
... Or that some employees are more equal than other employees...
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you are reading it right.. I think it says, for better or worse, that DL sees the RR program can be a high flexible, part-time, seasonal AT WILL employment arrangement that allows DL to adjust staffing very easily in situations where the workload will vary greatly within the days of week all the up to the seasons.....I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here, but the minimums for PT employees at PMNW are/were 16 hours a week (832 a year). The minimum for a Ready Reserve-which NW didn't have- is 300. The latter also get no benefits except pass travel.
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DL has already cancelled CAI and KBP and I don't know what else (I believe there are 4 routes) so it would appear that the "quota" of DL's cuts has already been met. Further, DL already said it would be downgauging TATL flying in favor of increased capacity to Latin America- likely meaning that 764s will sub for 333s which I am betting will start flying to S. America this winter.