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08-31-2012 | 01:18 PM

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From: AA Airbus

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Originally Posted by rickair7777

The federal which resulted from AA/TWA catastrophe would specifically forbid throwing any labor group under the bus just because they aren't part of the "in crowd".

SAPA might not be relevant to the NMB, but the pilot groups must be integrated in an equitable manner (Aleghany Mohawk IIRC). Allowing the two alpa groups to carve up the pie would violate that law, and the NMB can't do that.
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I'm not saying that we would be carved up, just that we won't have the backing we would with representation. I know representation isn't perfect but none is worse when integrating. The fact is we would be on the outside looking in when it comes to the NMB.

BTW, equitable is an arguable position, just look at SWA and AT. They got carved up pretty good with representation, if they had none they probably would have been stapled.