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Originally Posted by rickair7777
I still sleep better knowing it's out there...cheaper than a merger fund too 
The government actually did something right by us...hard to believe I know, but it is a good thing.
And if the law was misapplied by a rogue arbitrator, the law would still provide the high ground for an appeal or lawsuit. |
I'm not saying it wasn't a good law. I'm just saying that the law doesn't define fair and equitable because it leaves it to the pilot groups or arbitrator to decide. I don't see what basis a pilot group would have for a lawsuit if the didn't like the aribitrator's award. We saw some of that in the Nic award.
As for a merger fund, there will still be negotiations by each respective pilot group and each has to pay for the arbitrator if there is no agreement. Someone has to pay for that and it certainly wont be the government that is going to do that. It will either come from a merger fund or from whatever the MEC has as extra money (SMRA account in an ALPA MEC example).