No, actually not correct. What's correct is that this is another thread hijacked to reconstitute a tired old Usapian circle-jerk.
Usapian hysteria.
The arbitration will not be "run" by the APA, it will be run by the arbitrators. From my understanding, the APA will almost certainly appoint East pilots to represent East pilots on any committee bargaining after USAPA returns to Earth and comes back to its senses and those would almost certainly be pilots agreed to by East pilots. Likewise for the West. As for the original post, USAPA agreed to the MOU provisions that stipulate a JCBA before the SLI and now it is USAPA that wants to alter the MOU, not APA. USAPA agreed with the concept that APA would file for STS as soon as practicable, but is now implying that as an overreach and/or improper.
USAPA argued to Silver that only certified bargaining Agents were entitled to participate in the SLI with AA in deference to their demand they have their own reps at the table and yet agreed with the MOU provisions that ensured they would not be a bargaining agent by that point in the MOU process. They made this argument to hamstring and muzzle the West to eliminate any chance of consideration for the Nic. Now, they have flipped that argument demanding to redefine the MOU to both reverse what they agreed to beforehand (the MOU provisions and timeline) in the hope of continuing to muzzle the West as their representatives and argue for DOH or aspects that support DOH. They are crying that it's unfair APA is representing THEM in the AA/U SLI, yet advocated that very same concept when it involved them and West pilots.
This is known as hypocrisy.
Since then, they've attempted to build a house of cards to defend their actions and it will be seen for what it is. USAPA agreed to the MOU. The MOU calls for JCBA first and then SLI. The MOU allows APA to become the sole bargaining representative. For DFR purposes, APA will appoint merger committees (yet unknown) that will represent various sub-groups although they have no legal requirement to allow anyone else to participate in the actual arbitration. As of now, there likely wont BE any SLI negotiations as the process has stopped due to disagreement (although that may change). REGARDLESS of what APA says to the arbitrators, the arbitrators will decide the SLI and they certainly are aware of all the issues. If after the SLI occurs, any sub-group of pilots feels the APA misrepresented them or that the arbitrators were NOT appraised of all the issues, I'm sure there will be one or more DFR suits.
USAPA has filed a frivolous lawsuit to alter and redefine a process to which they both agreed to and which they now want to change for their benefit. McCaskill-Bond requires negotiation and then arbitration if no agreement in negotiation. So far, negotiation has failed. USAPA has failed to negotiate in the past, subverted the very process intended to resolve that failure and is now reconstituting a strategy that was successful in the past. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now..............you're free to return to whacking off.
