Originally Posted by
PurpleTurtle
This "binding arbitration" drivel is getting old... older than the obviously non-binding award that has never been used.
Here is a question for you.... "What exactly says the Nicalau award is final and binding?"
The ONLY thing that ever said the ALPA internal process would be followed was the 2005 TA, which itself reserved the right to be amended...
.... and the 2005 TA became a nullity on 9 Dec 13 by agreement of the MOU that everyone voted on.
Ergo there is no legal document that retains any "final and binding" for the old, internal ALAP process that was never used.
Move on.
I rest my case. Only on planet USAPA would one of its ihabitants attempt to convice rational Earthlings that something they agreed to and accepted at a point in time with defined boundaries and specific conclusion never existed simply because the ihabitants found a clever end-run around it after the fact. The "it never existed because we got out of it" argument is only found here on this planet in a psychiatric facility and not among the staff, but some of the residents.
