Originally Posted by
sailingfun
If management decides to merge the two airlines 9E would be very foolish to accept a staple. The worst they can do is a staple so why would you not go to arbitration especially given the factors the arbitrator will use.
why would a staple not look reasonable infront of an arbitrator?
-every pilot currently on the DAL list makes more per hour than every pilot on the 9E list (I think the hourly rate for a year 2 717B is about the same as a maxed out CRJ-900 CA, but that 717B wins once you include 401K)
-hundreds of pilots have left 9E for DAL, how many have done the opposite?
-There has been a defined career progression from endeavor to the bottom of DAL for years, that is an expectation. Why should a pilot hired from endeavor who was hired at DAL a year ago and now making more than his former co workers go behind them in a seniority integration?
while the press to test has never been done on a ML/RJ merger, I would entirely expect either a staple or very long fences.