Originally Posted by
Flyby1206
Management negotiates with the acquiring carrier what happens to your career. Beyond that, nobody knows what would happen.
Other airlines have a collective bargaining agreement that details these sort of things, and the union has a legal team to defend it, in addition to a pilot elected committee that will negotiate what happens to the pilot group.
According to the pea 50% of pilots have SLI rights, 50% do not.