jjj wrote: ↑Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:14 am
I wish all the best to anyone in this business getting a better deal but your average Encore pilot doesn’t garner much sympathy from anyone of my generation.
Cheers.
JJJ
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Well my guess is that all the encore pilots will keep there YOS and get the pay that goes along with it. I suspect very soon that there will be a posting for the “westjet group of companies”with the same pay scale for the first 3-4 years just like AC. So when you get hired the company will put you where they need you. Wen you are off the standard pay ( first 3-4 years) you can bid on base/type and keep the YOS that go along with it. This allows the company to grow where they need to and not have pilots applying for swoop, westjet but not encore. Not a good deal for experienced pilots but that’s they way it needs to be!
pacman007 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 02, 2018 5:57 am
Well my guess is that all the encore pilots will keep there YOS and get the pay that goes along with it.
Hi Pacman,
I don't know where you got the info that Encore pilots get YOS but it is wrong. The only thing Encore pilots have (for now) is the one list. Which only means that when they'll move to mainline (or Swoop), they will keep their DOH seniority. As of now, if an Encore pilot go to mainline, he/she will start at the year 1 pay rate and start from there.
Everything from the WJ/Swoop and Encore contract is under negotiations and very little have been revealed (for obvious reason). Anything coming out in forums are only rumors (often false).
far removed from this but curious all the same....
why wouldnt the company just agree and setup 1 list from the start?
doesnt that make the most sense anyway?
CAL wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 12:01 pm
far removed from this but curious all the same....
why wouldnt the company just agree and setup 1 list from the start?
doesnt that make the most sense anyway?
Before when it wasn't unionized the company could make under the table deals and hire anyone for any position for any reason, the one list is just a carrot.
Unless you're in a unionized environment where there are repercussions to hiring for a position where there are already qualified people internally apply, however because you don't want to train their replacement you hire outside.
A one list doesn't make the most sense for the company if there is so much flow that WJ can't take all the pilots from encore (they agreed to close to 100% intake, which wasn't the case) because there wasn't enough experience or qualified people to fly for encore. It makes sense as a carrot to entice qualified people to come to encore, but without a union it wasn't enforced, so they were hiring OTS hires for WJ positions, etc.
CAL wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 12:01 pm
far removed from this but curious all the same....
why wouldnt the company just agree and setup 1 list from the start?
doesnt that make the most sense anyway?
The one list was negotiated under the WJPA when the attempt was to make all pilots the same. WestJet Pilots flying Encore airplanes was what the WJPA was hoping to achieve - they did not. So the compromise was “one list” but separate companies. The scope for WestJet pilots was a LOU that stated if any layoffs occurred at WestJet they would bump Encore pilots off the list, so that way they were protected.
The financial burden of pure one list and all new hires going into encore would be hefty when retirements start to kick in from a training perspective.
The percentage of flow has always been predicated on Encores ability to operate while flowing to WestJet. This is about to become extremely difficult with such low experience coming into Encore, which I don’t believe anyone predicted as coming this soon 3-4 years ago.
Now that both Encore and WestJet are in negotiations it remains to be seen what the one list will look like once all negotiations are complete.
Rezy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 6:44 pm
flowing to WestJet. This is about to become extremely difficult with such low experience coming into Encore, which I don’t believe anyone predicted as coming this soon 3-4 years ago.
Well if they paid more, then perhaps more people might be pried loose from better-paying 703/4 jobs and raise the experience level a little...
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Sounds like the one list is alive and well. Westjet and Encore MECs agreed on the original intent of the one list and are presenting it to the company as an LOU which will then go to a vote at each pilot group before it is implemented.
And some good news for WeedPro: “This document has been legally reviewed and meets the requirements set forth under the ALPA Constitution and Canadian labour law.”
This is great news for all pilots at WestJet and Encore and guarantees an additional 600+ Pilots who have worked through Encore hired before April 2018 will upgrade on the 737 ahead of those hired after April 2018.