Originally Posted by Lewbronski

Here's how Alaska ALPA ended up with the Kashtration: bewilderingly, Alaska ALPA elected to enter into a Letter of Agreement with the company mandating binding arbitration if they couldn't settle on a new contract by December 15, 2004 after entering "expedited" negotiations on June 1, 2004. I'm sure it must have made sense to somebody at the time. But it's hard to fathom how it did.