Originally Posted by
JetPiedmont
If I'm mistaken someone please correct me, but Skybus pilots were told when they were interviewed that there would be no pay raises for the duration of their individual three year contracts.
Which begs a question, even if they do "get a union" on the property, what about those three year contracts they signed? Do they suddenly become null and void?
Any lawyers out there?
Figures for fourth quarter 2007 are not expected to be released until May, BTW.
We at JB are faced with the same "problem". Our labor law firm ( thank you again APA for "asking" them to handle JBPA pro-bono) is ready to file suit if the company opposes "status quo" as they believe the individual contracts must be converted immediately to a cba under the RLA with the added sections needed for it be collective .
BUT....there are no precedents, HOWEVER, sections 7-8-9 of the NRLA states that it is illegal for the company to take anything away if workers unionize.
so, while there are no precedents and nothing can be taken way, the issue is whether IBT or JBPA will have to negotiate form scratch, or if their individual contracts become 1 cba and they can use that as a short term bridge contract to negotiate a long lasting more profitable cba in the near future.
depending on what attitude the company(s) take, we might be seeing some very interesting court action soon enough.