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Shoelu, do you think an Arbitrated list would have been implemented by SWA if it was considered onerous by SWAPA ?
Any arbitrated list would most definitely have been implemented by Southwest Airlines, there was no other legal option.
A. SCOPE
This Agreement covers all revenue and miscellaneous flying, performed with aircraft owned or leased by the Company, or which displays Company markings, including all flying in and for the service of the Company and its affiliates. All flying covered by this Agreement shall be performed by pilots whose names appear on the Southwest Airlines Master Pilot Seniority List
C. MERGERS AND FRAGMENTATION
1. Mergers
In the event of a transaction or series of transactions with an air carrier or any person or entity that owns or controls or is owned or controlled by an air carrier, which may result the Company will require, as an irrevocable condition of such transaction or series of transactions, that the transferee will offer full-time regular employment to all pilots employed within the bargaining unit on the date of the transaction, provide such pilots with the seniority integration procedures established under Sections 3 and 13 of the “Allegheny-Mohawk Labor Protection Provisions”, 59 CAB 22 (1972), (including accepting the pilot seniority list obtained through that process as the pilot seniority list of the merged carrier), and maintain the statutory status quo of rates of pay, rules and working conditions established under this Agreement pending such operational merger. Pending any period of separate operation prior to operational merger and integration of collective bargaining agreements and pilot seniority lists, which shall be no longer than twenty-four (24) months..
(c) If the Merger Committees (subject to applicable governance provisions of SWAPA and ALPA, respectively) reach a complete agreement regarding the integration of their respective seniority lists (whether during negotiations, mediation, or arbitration), it shall be accepted by Southwest.
Shoulu, tell me where in the Process Agreement, that everyone signed, when would your CBA apply to the AirTran Pilots?
The date a single collective bargaining representative is recognized as the sole bargaining agent for the combined craft and class, in accordance with the RLA; and
ii. The issuance date of an FAA Single Operating Certificate
where in that process agreement does it spell out the implementation schedule if there is an arbitrator's award.
g) The Final Award shall be final and binding on the Parties to this Agreement, on their successor and assigns, and on the pilots employed by the Companies and their affiliates. The Final Award shall include the date on which the Integrated Master Seniority List will become effective, which will be either a date agreed upon by the parties or, if they do not agree, a date determined by the Panel.