Originally Posted by
Probe
Section 6 - Seniority
6-A General
6-A-1 A Pilot shall be placed and shall retain his relative seniority position on the United Pilot Seniority List (the “Seniority List”) effective on the date of hire as a Pilot with the Company. A Pilot shall remain on the Seniority List from such date except as provided in this Agreement.
The above is cut and pasted from the new JCBA. Does this mean the SLI is already done? The UAL and CAL sides both voted on it.
Please don't flame me for this, but this is from the contract. I won't argue one way or another how it should be done.
Maybe JP was so busy trying to write LOA 25, he forgot to read the fine print...........
I realize you guys are all havin' a rockin' good time arguing over something we can't control, BUT I just thought I would address the OP's actual question:
Does this mean the SLI is already done?
It appears to me that Mr. Probe (the OP) was looking at the words "shall be placed . . . and shall retain . . . effective on the DOH" and hinting that Jay Pierce had missed the fine print and DOH was a forgone conclusion because the contract specifies exactly that in the opening paragraph.
Ahh, sorry Mr. Probe, but I do believe that would be a mistaken interpretation of the language. 1) The "Seniority List" is what the SLI is building, and 2) the paragraph is talking about new hires. You get added to the list when you get hired, and you keep your relative position until the day you die or until some judge says otherwise based on some future airline nonsense.
Just tryin' to stay focused
