Originally Posted by
Zoomie
Well, up until last Monday, date of hire hasn't mattered much and longevity was undefined with the new policy. The arbitrators went with the UAL interpretation since Moak refused to define it for them.
Status for furloughs was also undefined.
Well, the precedence is set now. Congrats. Like I've said, you won and so did ALPA.
You obviously have not been paying attention?
The Pinnacle/Mesaba/Colgan ISL that preceded our integration was the first ISL using the "new" ALPA policy. In that case the arbitrator determined that straight DOH (i.e. 100% longevity) within each stove-piped category was appropriate considering the addition of longevity to the policy. He even integrated furloughed pilots with active pilots within their FO category by DOH. And the arbitrator involved was not some unknown newcomer as he previously chaired the DAL/NWA panel that used the prior policy.
Since there already was a precedent I'm presuming that senior UAL pilots (top 20%) and the bottom 2/3s of the CAL list are grateful that UAL did not propose the 100% longevity precedent nor did the arbitrators use it and instead settled on the hybrid 65/35%.