Originally Posted by
algflyr
But how long would that have taken? How many more years? Absent this merger with AA, I think that would have happened eventually once the retirements eventually evened out the numbers of each group. But a lot of West pilots would have retired and/or left the company by then as well. That's one of the issues. The TA was written so either side could prevent implementation by not voting in a new JCBA that would trigger implementation. To try and use it now is taking that failsafe away that was built into the TA. It's essentially saying the East voted it in, when they did not.
This may not be popular with my west brothers and sisters but I will admit that the Nic is probably not going to be used in its unaltered form. That greatly disappoints me. None of us created the award. We, through our elected reps, agreed to let this guy decide what was to be. We argued a method just as the east did. Nicolau decided. Why the east never asked him to revisit the award if they felt it was inappropriate is beyond me. Hell he even went on to state that he would continue to have authority over that determination. Anyhow my point is; I do believe that the arbitrators will look at the current Nic and adjust it for existing equities. How that will be done is far beyond my pea-brain capabilities...