Originally Posted by
757HI
After all these years the basic reality of going to arbitration is still lost on some people.
Not really. I would say that it is lack of knowledge of the merger process as it were during the E/W merger.
SLI===>Joint contract===>Independent ratification
vs
Joint Contract (including layout of SLI process)===>independently ratified====>SLI (already ratified)
Se the difference? All of those years of ALPA merger policy and nobody ever exploited the loophole. Somebody was bound to do so, and all it really took was an extremely lopsided arbitration.
Think you will see the AA furloughs at the bottom of this list?
Think you will see the top XXX positions go to one side?
Think you will see fences based on a soon to be changed age limit?
BTW, IMO Parker could have gotten that mess done by offering a Delta contract when it came out, or the new one in 2012. A public leaking of it would have had USAPA pilots surrounding USAPA headquarters with torches and pitchforks.