So what will they replace it with? And how it will provide more coverage with the same staffing? With the same bodies?
All great questions. I’m guessing nobody will know the answers until December and then every facility is doing their best to finalize a BWS and bid.
Supes aren't real people anyway.
They didn’t do NCEPT or the SSR panel this month. I’d say the odds are not as good going forward…
No it will be straight shifts. Even the agency doesnt like the reverse bc it limits OT availability. Congrats on Wed/Thu off straight eves.
Been saying this for years. The agency knows that the fix for fatigue and simplicity in scheduling is straight shifts. But this doesn’t mean you’ll work the same start time every day. It will simply be mornings, eves, and a skeleton crew on a mid. Start times will vary though (eve could be 1200, 1330, 1445, 1800).
I’m ok with sun/mon straight days.
You are optimistic to believe they wouldn't trash every seniority based system we have and just assign ppl whatever they feel.
M1 was straight shifts. And no, it didnt work. Doesn't mean they wouldn't implement it once the guardrails to their stupidity are gone.
I definitely agree with this sentiment. That's why I don't rule out the reverse rattler. Darkhorse candidate: creating more supes in lieu of CPCs and cracking the whip on the guys that now have no labor protections
What does this mean?
Dissolves the union
It shouldn't really assuming that the actual shifts that are assigned aren't changing. Now if they start changing shifts at all, that will affect things obviously. As would if they got rid of the 9 or 10 hr shifts plenty of facilities are using. But just the normal 8 hr shifts, all you're doing is just changing which employee works each shift. For example, a Friday day shift would normally always be worked by a Sat/Sun person on their last day, but with a straight shift schedule, maybe its now a Tue/Wed guy working it while the Sat/Sun is working the night (which would have been the Tue/Wed guys normal shift). Now if they try to just do each person working a single shift all week long instead of the "collection" of shifts (only working a 6 instead of either a 5, 6 or 7 for example for the days) then that would definitely make things more difficult especially when leave starts coming into play.
Worked at a military RAPCON for 6 years and everyone worked straight shifts that only changed week to week. Which is frankly better than anything the FAA can offer. What exactly are you dogging on the .mil side about?
Replacing finance’s very shitty idea to run staffing with NATCA’s slightly less but still very shitty idea to run staffing doesn’t fix anything. You can take your union blowhard rhetoric elsewhere.
