Originally Posted by
Birddog
There was across the board support at all C-171 meetings from both L-UA and L-CA groups on the LTD issue. This is not a black vs blue issue. It seems a more wonkish holdup of the R&I committee about establishing a value of the over funding which is not comforting. I don't know MEC politics but for some reason EWR opposes C-171 on this issue. Another ball of worms that should be a simple fix.
Funny we always complain about the company's inability to implement the contract and forget ALPA can't even pay us the full retro from the same contract.
Dogg
So group A says the value is X
And group B says the value is Y
So, why does ALPA care? Does the R and I committee get to unilaterally establish the dollar amount or does the company have the right to refute it? Or, does a third party company, say group C get to value it as Z? Or is this something that will go to arbitration to group D in order to come to a valuation somewhere between X, Y and Z?
Why wouldn't ALPA go with the most beneficial figure to the pilot group?