I think it can be justified because the way it was explained it was settled via a CAL CONTRACT GRIEVANCE. This wasn't a T&PA grievance. This grievance resulted from language located within the CAL PILOT CONTRACT...the same contract which does include profit sharing language, albeit with a sunset date.

The issue of profit sharing and the grievance were solved as it relates to the CAL pilot contract. Again, I'm not commenting on the merits of profit sharing as a negotiating tool, but answering how it can be justified from what I believe a lawyer could argue.

You know that last year the CAL pilots won a monetary award in regards to the continued violation of the scope clause when CAL put their code temporarily on flights for sale on some mobile sites? It was a small monetary award in the low five digits, but that too was a grievance born of the CAL contract. If the CAL pilots had settled that for six-figures as an example (instead of the little we got), would the UAL pilots see this as getting something extra too??

If you can find something in your contract that you can use to get more money, then I am all for it...as it relates to your contract.