Originally Posted by
capncrunch
Wanting to go into arbitration seems odd, I don't believe that. I do understand both groups arguments and don't see how there will be an agreement that satisfies each one equally. A few years of a pay raise, which NWA will be getting when the contract expires anyway, does not seems worth a career of bad SLI. JMHO
I'm curious. When in the 17 or so years that NW had fences up for the Republic pilots did the union come up with an agreement outside of arbitration? I'm talking about agreements in regard to seniority list/fence issues between Red book and Green book pilots. I haven't heard of one. I think there was about 26 arbitrated decisions during this period.
If this is accurate then it doesn't look like NWALPA knows any other way then arbitration. It's easy to keep from taking the blame on a bad decision when you can blame on the arbitrator.