Originally Posted by FreightDawgyDog

Concur on the "Good move IPA" part. As for your 2000 reference, I do not recall what DALPA was sued for and could not find a reference on the internet. Do you have one? Thanks in advance..

As for what happened in 1993, I had many conversations with DALPA legal and their MEC about what they could or couldn't do under the contract at the time. There was never a concern about legal issues. It was about not upsetting those that were flying the OT and causing "unity " issues as a result. Not sure why you want to focus on that though. The bottom line is the UPS pilots will have the power to control when the furloughed pilots come back if this goes through, just like the Delta pilots did. Instead of doing the right thing and leaving OT alone, they pointed to the fact that they were paying COBRA cost for those that were on the street to justify their extra flying and helping Delta keep those pilots out as hostages during contract talks.

To recap..paid Cobra for furloughed pilots is nice, getting them back to work with full benefits is better. That should be the focus of the IPA and UPS pilots if this goes through.