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Your union fears the ATI group growing to a substantial number and then a merger forced on us. We'd have to vote on represantion...afterwards 1224 would be gone off this property. Youd be under ATI/alpa then would come the ISL committee and the integration where the first 75 legacy would be bypassed.
Really? This is not a personal attack, more commenting towards your knowledge and quality in the content of your post; but you're sounding either dumb or stupid....your choice.
At least come to the table with something reasonable. *If* there were a merger between ABX/ATI, regardless of who survives, there would be no skipping 75 numbers in the creation of a ISL. While far enough fetched, if there were such a thing, ABX pilots would sustain the higher end of a list since there years of service are too great to bypass when compared to ATI.
Are you honestly representing that ATI pilots would forgo ABX's contract in order to remain with ALPA? Anyone who's been around these blocks already knows the representative authority (i.e. ALPA/Teamsters/etc.) has little to do with your contract. It's all in the pilot group.
My personal belief is that ATI is suspending hiring for a little bit and will resume in the future some time (pending movement on their B757 flying). Regardless if they resume or stay in a suspended mode; the future continues support ABX having a larger number of crewmembers...if that really matters to you.
Lastly I am not in favor of a merger between these groups (at this time).