Originally Posted by
Selcall
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.
Selcall,
That is complete BS. If your pilot group is so shallow and distrustful that they think an outside party can develop a better, fairer integration methodology than the three(?) elected pilot members of a merger committee, then I feel sorry for you and your group. I'm convinced you'd rather the arbitrator give you a nickel, than your negotiators negotiate to receive a dime, because you are implying, by very definition, if they negotiate a solution, it will be looked at as worse than what the arbitrators would give.
BTW, that's the EXACT same philosophy that drove the train wreck at USAir.
All I can say is I hope you are wrong.
PG