Originally Posted by
marlonmoneda1
While you are correct that it is wrong to label the whole by a few bad apples, I have heard from quite a few pinnacle fo's myself in addition to other friends telling me stories of talk of screwing mesaba guys, and 4 to 1, 5 to 1 integration bs and we owe pinnacle this that and the other. I have never heard in any conversation of mine with fellow xj pilots a single mutterance of abusing the seniority integration process for over the other two pilot groups. Xj pilots will always say date of hire is the only true honest way for integration, even the junior ones. I think this all a sign of bitterness on the part of pinnacle pilots who have been abused for a long time. I understand, Ive been receiving a crap pie for a while just like anyone, but have some decency please.
You mean 3 to 1, as in the 3 to 1 YOUR MEC signed that is still valid???
It's debateable whether the LOA was enforceable--the McCaskill law relates to differently-unionized lab groups, the LOA was a mutually binding (and still valid) agreement between two ALPA MEC's...we could split hairs over it, but I'm thinking our MEC and the ALPA national folks definitely did a favor to the XJ folks by not even attempting to push that LOA