Originally Posted by
RedeyeAV8r
I goota chime in Hear. What would you have The President of ALPA do in the case of an ALPA to ALPA merger? (i.e AWA and USAir).
Should he have taken sides and supported East Pilots over West?
Look I am extremely sympathetic to the USAir East because what happend to them could happen to anyone of us at a moments notice.
The bulk of what happend at USAir East was out of the USAir MEC and ALPA National's control.
The merger with AWest/ USAir was out of both MEC's and ALPA National's control. Doug Parker, The BOD and the Shareholders were in control.
The Seniority Integration was, however, between the MEC's of USAir and America West, and because both sides agreed to Binding Arbitration, was ultimately in the hands of Mr. Nicholau the Arbitrator. With 20/20 Hindsight, I am sure that USAir East pilots would not have agreed to Binding arbitration or would have at least altered their strategy/ demands. But we would all be Billionaires with 20/20 hindsight wouldn't we........except us Pilots that is
ALPA National cannot choose sides in a merger between 2 ALPA represented groups.
Ditto
And another thing, Instead of trying to dump ALPA, why not dump the MEC that lead the Easties into BINDING arbitration and then failed to heed the arbiters advice to bring a different proposal after he rejected their date of hire proposal for the third time?
No matter what else is said, both sides agreed to binding arbitration, nothing else really matters. After Alaska took a huge pay cut at the hands of an arbitrator, I thought that pilot groups would avoid arbitrators like they had the plague. Oh well.