Originally Posted by
Hightime80
Also side note: Im curious what the SY scope section says for merger protection. our CBA requires that a SCBA (JCBA) be in effect before SLI.
Then you're good, JCBA will have to be done first. They can't violate your scope, even if the SY CBA says something different.
Extreme hypothetical, if one CBA said JCBA then SLI and the other CBA said SLI then JCBA, the company would have to negotiate how to reconcile the conflict. If they couldn't get the unions to agree to some compromise, then legally they can't do the merger.
In reality SY either has the same provision (likely since they're ALPA) or they'd be happy to do JCBA first anyway... all you have to do is read up on US east to know why.