Originally Posted by
flybywire44
This actually goes to further my points. The MOU in some aspects actually contains less safeguards than McCaskill Bond. For instance, there is no provision in it for arbitration prior to JCBA. This does not safeguard USAPA during the merger protocol agreement. If the MOU was followed explicitly without a merger protocol agreement than it becomes obvious that the MOU exposes it's own timeline to a substantial delay. USAPA is doing more than any party to retire the timeline by utilizing MCB to settle the merger protocol agreement.
I've posted on this further here:
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/am...ml#post1610181
You are an entitled to an opinion, however you do not obviously understand what McCaskill Bond actually guarantees. You seem to think MB guarantees USAPA will be in charge of the US negotiating team and have a voice in how the arbitration goes down. Show us all where MB has that language. Really, though, the MB amendment says nothing at all like that. MB simply guarantees Allegheny Mohawkk protections 3 and 13 (arbitration)- nothing more. It does not discuss CBA's and who is in charge of what- that all flows from the NMB.
The lawsuit brought about by Hummel (since you apparently do not realize this) is a complaint to the courts to seek remedy with the NMB over the SLI protocol talks. NOt the SLI itself, but a protocol discussion and the deviation of the timeline set forth in the MOU which USAPA is a party of. However, Hummer is asking the wrong arbitrators in his complaint to settle this- the arbitration highlighted in MB is for SLI (read NMB arbitration panel), not contract interpretation issues arising from a document like the MOU. The arbitration panel set up by the MOU covers this scenario and that is what the APA and American are arguing. Hummer just seemed to go off on a tangent with his lawsuit in DC asking for a remedy that doesn't exist in MB and certainly isn't in the MOU- that's pretty much the substance of it.
Since you voted for the MOU, consider yourself in the same bus n ow as Ozark (voted for the DOH SLI by Hank Duffy and the TWA pilots) or Air Tran (voted for the SLI by SWAPPA). It's over for USAPA, you are along for the ride.