Originally Posted by
cadetdrivr
FYI, it IS in arbitration. The hearings began on Monday.
While that is pretty much what happened at DAL/NWA, the UAL/CAL lawyers are making their arguments under the revised ALPA Merger Policy (which was not in effect for DAL/NWA.)
Ok, I went to the ALPA.org site and, of course, couldn't find the new merger policy. The old policy had, if I remember correctly, 5 things that they considered. Could someone post what the new policy contains. Also keep in mind, that while you want the arbitrators to follow ALPA merger policy they can essentially do what they want now that it is in their hands. That was the big drawback that was explained to us over and over. That is also why we wanted three arbitrators versus just one.