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Sink r8
If you care to post the LUAL version, I'd appreciate it.
Here's what the UAL Merger Committee put out the day after the list was released:
September 4, 2013
Yesterday, you were sent a copy of the Integrated Seniority List Award. Your Merger Committee has compiled a list of informational bullet points to summarize the decision of the Arbitration Board. This is the end of a multi-year effort to secure a fair and equitable seniority list integration. While we do not expect every pilot be pleased with any arbitrated result, we have followed a mutually agreed upon course to this point and we believe the ISL the arbitrators awarded is sound.
Our team and our counsel note that, on almost every issue, the Arbitration Board relied on our presentation in their decision:
· The UAL-MEC Merger Committee proposed an October 1, 2010 "snapshot" date for the purposes of assessing status and category and measuring longevity. The Arbitration Board based their decision on that date.
· The UAL-MEC Merger Committee proposed incorporating all three factors from Merger Policy. The Arbitration Board emphasized the need to consider all three factors and incorporated all of them.
· The UAL-MEC Merger Committee proposed a Hybrid ISL Model, weighted at 50% status and category and 50% longevity. The Arbitration Board accepted our Hybrid methodology but determined that a weighting of 65% status and category and 35% longevity "blended the two pilot groups most fairly and equitably from the top of the list to the bottom."
· The UAL-MEC Merger Committee’s status and category list grouped aircraft into “Jumbo” (747, 777), “Medium” (767, 757), “Narrow” (A320/319, 737). The Arbitration Board accorded no weight to the negotiated pay bands and adopted these groupings.
· The UAL-MEC Merger Committee urged that only longevity earned while serving in "mainline" operations should be considered. The Arbitration Board agreed and ruled that service for a related regional carrier does not count for longevity purposes.
· The UAL-MEC Merger Committee argued that a substantial number of UAL furloughees should be inserted into the final list with active CAL pilots based on their superior longevity – a key factor in Merger Policy. The Arbitration Board stated that "a proposal that completely ignores sweat equity longevity cannot be a plank in our ISL platform." 718 furloughed UAL pilots were integrated in with active CAL pilots; to date this represents the largest integration of furloughed pilots with active pilots.
· The UAL-MEC Merger Committee's proposal for bidding fences included a 5-year fence on the 747-400 / A350 and restrictions on the 787 by pilot base. The Arbitration Board determined that the 747-400 / A350 would be fenced for the legacy-UAL side while the 787 would be fenced for the legacy-CAL side until the Company takes delivery of its 25th 787, or 5 years, whichever occurs first.
In summary, we believe that the Arbitration Board largely validated the methodologies proposed by the UAL-MEC Merger Committee and has produced a fair and equitable Integrated Seniority List.