Originally Posted by
Tony Nelson
Exactly. They should have just skipped mediation and gone right to arbitration. Could have saved a few months of new hires.
OR could have saved even more months of new hires by agreeing to an ISL now. It could be a done deal with pilots on both sides filling the 588 vacancies at the combined UAL in their new seniority order. Instead, the 500 vacancies on the LCAL side will continue to be filled by mostly new hires right through the summer and well into the fall. The JCBA yes vote seemed to be driven by the desire to stop the upgrade of junior LCAL pilots into CA slots and for LUAL to gain control of the union to show LCAL how the pros do it. Now that all gets kicked down the road.