Your former CBA signed a protocol agreement with the APA that gave USAPA the responsibility to represent the East pilots in the SLI process. In that agreement the East pilots through USAPA agreed to arbitrate the question of a separate West committee and the West ultimately prevailed. Also in that protocol agreement USAPA agreed that should they withdraw from the SLI arbitration process they will forfeit their right to participate further in the process.

Even though the APA is your CBA, the conditions in which you would be represented in the SLI were spelled out in this agreement by all parties. Now that your seniority representatives have exercised their right to withdraw, does not mean the APA has or will breach its DFR by not appointing a new East committee.

Your letter writing campaign should be aimed at the committee who walked out on the talks, not the APA. Your East committee and FBA abandoned you. Sad, but it's not a DFR.

You're in a tough spot, I get it. But it is really a spot created by the collective will of your own group.


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