Originally Posted by Lerxst

Lee,

You are posting a lot of hearsay in an attempt to split the groups against one another. You are also combining disparate issues wrongly wrt the Wage Data request and Retro.

W-2 Wage Data for BOTH groups was a separate CBA issue that was arbitrated months ago and ruled that it is allowable (and has been used in previous mergers) as a component in the merger integration process. National is now deciding what the singular ALPA position on the matter will be. Has no bearing on Retro or is affecting the timeline at all.

The Retro arbitration is just that, both parties have floated several different proposals and it is up to the arbitrator to decide on a ratio split by either accepting one of the proposals or creating his own. This process has been separate and parallel to the final JCBA language and had had no bearing on the timeline. The JNC will be in Chicago next week to continue to work on language.

The only side guilty of holding up this process is UCH. And Jeffy is laughing his ass off every time he gets a pilot group to start pointing fingers at the other.