Thread: Protocol Agreement Reached per USAPA
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Old 05-04-2014 | 12:23 PM
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cactiboss
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Originally Posted by cactiboss
I guess the apa just answered ucrapas proposals in dc court.
Stephens Decl. ¶¶ 33-34. According to Stephens:
APA and [the American pilot merger committee] were unwilling to agree to [USAPA’s insistence on] a reservation of rights, for the precise reason that USAPA had argued to the court in Addington v. US Airline Pilots Ass’n, No. 13- cv-00471, Doc. 298 (D. Ariz. Jan. 10, 2014), that only the certified bargaining representative is a proper party to the seniority list arbitration, albeit with separate committees representing the pre-merger seniority list pilots, and that APA would be that representative when the arbitration would occur under the MOU. The court held that it “has no doubt that—as is USAPA’s consistent practice— USAPA will change its position when it needs to do so to fit its hard and unyielding view on seniority. . . . The Court’s patience with USAPA has run out. . . . And when USAPA is no longer the certified representative, it must immediately stop participating in the seniority integration.” Stephens Decl., Ex. 11 (quoting Addington v. U.S. Airline Pilots Ass'n, CV-13-00471-PHX-ROS
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