Originally Posted by
all4114all
Death and taxes. ALPA, nice try using an 85 year old arbitrator fired by Major League Baseball, along with United and Continental pilots that you considered pilot "neutrals".
Then your committee to investigate this was the Rice Committee. As in VP of ALPA United pilot Paul Rice. You know the "neutral" pilot from United overseeing a dispute with USAirways, the airline at the time they were in serious merger discussions with.
Nice try. ALPA was FIRED as a Union. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals looked into a DFR suit against the new USAirways pilots union regarding this and their findings were,
CASE DISMISSED!
Wow, What a distortion. The USAIR east pilots pushed the negotations into binding arbitration. Then they got the arbitrator that they wanted! Do you have any idea of the process to pick a abitrator? From you post the answer has to be no. Nic was USAIR easts first choice! I don't agree with the final list produced by binding arbitration is just that binding.
There is also some confusion on this lawsuit. The Nic list is still the seniority list at USAIR. Nothing in this decision overturned that. When they get a joint contract if ever it will be the list or there will be another DFR lawsuit and this time it will be ripe to borrow the term from the decision.
In reality the mess at USAIR will probably never be undone and their contract will continue to be a drag on the rest of the industry. The East pilots will never recoup the money or quality of life they lost by continuing to work under the going out of business contract. The pilot group as a whole will never be able to negotiate anything they are so divided. Parker can continue to ignore USAPA as he has since its formation.