Originally Posted by
NERD
The others (UAL and AA) will find a way to reset. Bank on it. That being said, pease define unity? Us taking pay cuts, pay freezes, agreeing to allow sli to go to arbitration? 99.9999% of all dci would accept a staple, the .0001% won't and will sue. Besides, how do you get mgmt to agree to it? Talk is cheap.
There will be no arbitration because anything can happen and you know that. DCI pilots will never even get to be in a position to get one day more seniority than the bottom mainline pilot hired today. Arbitration gives them that chance, and they have nothing to lose in trying so they will. A staple is the only way, however any kind of deal that allows them to even vote on it will be painted as coersion by the sue happy free loaders looking for a windfall, so it won't get to that point either.
New hires at the bottom of the list is the only way. A flow through is the closest thing to "one list" as we're going to get with a separate pilot group at a regional.