It really shows ones lack of maturity to believe that we were going to be able to negotiate a joint Seniority List without arbitration. It would have been political suicide for either MEC to agree to a negotiated list. Now they can say with a semi clear conscience that they tried, gave it their best shot, paid the lawyers well, and we have to live with what the arbitrators have decreed as the final verdict.
This whole integration is as much about political power as it is anything else.