Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I hope you understand you can’t staple anyone under current laws. More than likely any seniority list integration would go to arbitration. No one would agree to a staple because you can’t do worse than that. Arbitration offers the hope of a improvement with zero downside.
Actually, you're wrong, as usual. You can't
involuntarily staple an acquired labor group, but they certainly can agree to it voluntarily. Usually how they are convinced to agree to that is the threat of a shutdown or dissolution of the deal. Ask the AirTran pilots.
AA and APA could certainly offer the WOs a take it or leave it staple deal, and if they turn around and demand integration, the deal goes away, and their flying gets transferred to SkyWest, Mesa, and Air Wisconsin. Checkmate.
So yeah, you can still staple people. You just can't force it on them anymore like TWA.