Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
Hey I have to defend Carl here. I think that he was correcting several misrepresentations. For starters it was well known that the NWA/Republic fence was 20 years. I'm not sure where the 18 year assertion came from.
The Roberts award did not come out until several years after the merger. The fences lasted for a little less than 18 years after the award. The fences ended 20 years after the merger, but the weren't in place until the award was published.
Second, the NWA pilots did have lifetime reinstatement rights.
Third, the Red Book merger committee filed a grievance in 2005 that argued that the end of the fences would cause them to possibly lose their positions so they wanted lifetime displacement protection from their fenced positions. The arbitrator was Dana Eischen, one of the arbitrators for the DAL/NWA arbitration and he mentioned that arbitation during the hearing.
So what I said was correct. I am sorry if this is turning into a food fight, but if Carl says it's important to correct the record, then we should correct the record.