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Originally Posted by kiteflyer
NWA and Delta pilots are you listening to this?????
This is why you need to put the Compass Pilots on the bottom of your combined list. This will happen to the new Delta. Call your negotiator while the seniority list is still in arbitration. Don't even mention scope, you have already changed the weight limits in your scope to allow the Emb 175. Scope is just a tool management uses to marginalize unions.
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The seniority list is maintained by management. We can't just add someone to the list. We could only force the issue if management decided to merge Compass in to the mainline. We could also approach management in contract negotiations about shutting down compass and merging the airline. I heard that the issue was in fact put on the table in the joint contract however it did not go anywhere with management. The weight exemption is however only for the planned aircraft at Compass. It does not apply across the board. The other issue is that if you add compass what do you do with the other owned airlines. I was at a MEC meeting many years ago where the issue of what to do with Comair and ASA was discussed in depth with reps from those airlines there. There was very strong sentiment among the Delta pilot group that we needed one airline and one list. Comair's demand that they be merged DOH or nothing netted them nothing. Their follow on furlough letter from the Comair MEC chairman became famous and is still posted in Delta pilot lounges. It has insured that there will never be much support there.