Originally Posted by
Qotsaautopilot
Per the ALPA email, spirit doesn’t think the disagreement falls under expedited arbitration of the LOA and want to go through the normal Grivence process. To me that says they don’t actually want an agreement they just want to stall. What difference does it make to them whether it goes to expedited arbitration or regular? One reason: one process takes forever and they buy more time at our currently terrible rigs at 2nd to bottom pay. It’s negotiating in bad faith and blatant stalling just like they did in sec 6 and will do again in our next CBA. I hope all the new guys are seeing this. A year in and they are already showing what they will do for years in 2023. We should’ve gotten the rigs day one PBS or not.
I’m saying that I don’t think they have a choice of whether it goes to expedited or system arbitration. Granted that without knowing the issue at hand as iwasinverted mentioned, we are merely speculating. If the issue has to do with the PBS LOA, it goes to expedited arbitration as defined in the terms of contract 2018. The whole point of the expedited arbitration clause was to protect both parties interest in the event that the other side dragged their feet. I simply don’t think that either side can just claim that a particular issue isn’t eligible for expedited arbitration. This would defeat the purpose of it. The company can claim what ever they want, but just like I cannot refuse a legal Y list trip if I pick up my phone, they too have contractual protocol they have to follow.
You’re absolutely right that we either should have gotten new rigs/duty day from day 1 or otherwise a tit for tat trade; they get transition conflict and reserve drops when we get the new rigs.