Originally Posted by
70Espada
I have no reason to think poorly of the APA, it's just the fact that they don't represent me yet. They will and should do what is in the best interest of their members. I look forward to being a member one day.
I don't think it's in APA's best interest to screw anyone. They know that at some point everyone will be under their representational umbrella and if they go out of their way to screw large numbers of future members like the entire west, they just weaken themselves in the long run, at least I would HOPE they understand that.
Originally Posted by
70Espada
USAPA is controlled by east pilots and they are a fractured group. There are pilots on the east that want to punish guys like me because of an arbitration that was done by a neutral third party. Some of those pilots don't want to just put me below the furloughed pilots, they want me below the new hires that were hired at OUR airline long after I was. Not all east pilots are out to harm the west. There are some good guys/gals out east and even in the union, but because of USAPA's track record I don't have a lot of faith in a fair and equitable process.
Well, likewise, I would think (and hope) USAPA would think long and hard about another bull-in-the-china-shop approach. If that approach is selected and it backfires, they wont have the same option as the last SLI. It would seem them slamming their straight DOH list on the table would not be a good start (as is a non-starter anyway negotiation or arbitration), but neither are they likely going to place the Nic list either which will then disappoint many on the west and perhaps resulting in Leo the lion making another legal growl. Putting both lists on the table without proposing their own methodology of how to integrate those would seem to make then attempting to negotiate how to integrate them with AA kind of pointless. Ultimately, it would seem to me that the East/West result will be neither Nic nor foul. As far as fair and equitable, that's a hope we ALL will have to place on the arbitrator as the players have their own versions of what that is.