IPA Pilots Focus on 2009
05-28-2009, 08:14 AM
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[quote=Naven;618336]...The point of my previous post is UPS can't honor all the RDG requests for the next couple of bid periods... [quote]
It's actually longer than the next couple of bid periods. Think about it: why was the deadline for RDG/JS a week later (originally) than leaves and early retirements? Simple - RDG/JS is a much bigger pain in the a$$ for the company to administer. It also produces much less savings than the former. They'd really like to do the whole cost savings with furloughs, leaves, and early retirements (in that order). Someone gone completeley (retirement) or for a specified time (LOA) is a lot easier for them to factor, both from a cost perspective and the manpower planning angle as well. RDJ/JS is going to be extra work for the company -- they've got to come up with the reduced lines each bid period, which is more work than they're doing now. And JS -- there's BOUND to be eff-ups from that deal (guys confused on which trip they're taking and trips getting missed, sick, vacation, working currency issues/SVTs, etc). As far as savings, the original target was arrived at by taking 300 FOs X their entire guarentee for a year ... that's 292,500 hours at 2nd/3rd year pay. Guys volunteering for one or two bid periods of reduced line (15 hrs) or JS (37.5 hrs), even at higher pay rates, requires a LOT of volunteers. The more volunteers, however, the bigger the admin headache to the company... If we don't get enough retirements/PLOAs, it ain't gonna happen BOTTOM LINE.
It's actually longer than the next couple of bid periods. Think about it: why was the deadline for RDG/JS a week later (originally) than leaves and early retirements? Simple - RDG/JS is a much bigger pain in the a$$ for the company to administer. It also produces much less savings than the former. They'd really like to do the whole cost savings with furloughs, leaves, and early retirements (in that order). Someone gone completeley (retirement) or for a specified time (LOA) is a lot easier for them to factor, both from a cost perspective and the manpower planning angle as well. RDJ/JS is going to be extra work for the company -- they've got to come up with the reduced lines each bid period, which is more work than they're doing now. And JS -- there's BOUND to be eff-ups from that deal (guys confused on which trip they're taking and trips getting missed, sick, vacation, working currency issues/SVTs, etc). As far as savings, the original target was arrived at by taking 300 FOs X their entire guarentee for a year ... that's 292,500 hours at 2nd/3rd year pay. Guys volunteering for one or two bid periods of reduced line (15 hrs) or JS (37.5 hrs), even at higher pay rates, requires a LOT of volunteers. The more volunteers, however, the bigger the admin headache to the company... If we don't get enough retirements/PLOAs, it ain't gonna happen BOTTOM LINE.
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