Originally Posted by
formerdal
First, let me say i am not East or West. The NIC was the arbitrated list but it was never implemented. There is no way an arbitrator can use a list that was created over 5 years ago and never used. Too much has changed since then and if there is no JCBA between east and west and you guys just essentially get assimilated into AA's new contract the NIC was never ratified...
We all know you hate the east but this is an opportunity for both the east and west to put things behind them and move on with a better situation...Good luck.
Well you don't have a clue about the situation. So you are saying that usapa actively avoiding the arbitration should be rewarded by a do over 5 years later, where the west has been shrunk and the east grown 7 years after we are a single company? Besides the moral implications, there are legal implications that you obviously don't understand. The Nic. does not and cannot be "ratified" neither east or west get's a vote. The Nic, is the accepted SLI at usairways at this time and was inherited by usapa as a successor union. Usapa want's to remove the EXISTING sli and replace it with one that favors the east pilot's. These are the fact's, the only question has only ever been if replacing an existing seniority list with one that favors the majority is illegal. A jury in phx said yes it was, the 9th circuit said that we had to wait until the list was actually replaced to sue.