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Old 06-03-2015 | 10:20 AM
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JungleBus
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Carl & PD -- OK, yeah, it sucks that they can violate scope at will and just pay us some cash, but I want to know what we could do differently. Any violation of the contract will always go through the grievance and arbitration process. We filed the grievance, we kept it out of the Section 6 process, both good. The subsequent alternatives are settling or going to the arbitrator. We settled for $30M. Would an arbitrator have awarded more? *Maybe,* but then we're still selling scope for money (and the arbitrator might have said $15M while simultaneously giving Sir Richard a handy under the table). What I can't see the arbitrator doing is forcing Delta to up their int'l block hours and creating more widebody vacancies. That's the solution we'd like to see but simply not going to happen. So it was always going to come down to money.
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