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Would that be the same most experienced, most respected labor attorneys in the country who lost ALPA's office building in the PanAm seniority lawsuit? The same ones who paid nearly a million bucks to the settle with the RJDC? The same ones who just lost mega-millions in the UAL notes lawsuit?
Cohen, Weiss and Simon along with all their former partners and offshoots are the beating heart of the dues consuming monster up there in Herndon. They bill us for tens of million$ every single year. They aren't going to do anything that might rock the boat. They are hopelessly entrenched in their mahogany paneled complacency.
Maybe we need a second opinion?
The United States government has just said that Republic is a single transportation system. Its worth a shot to see if maybe the System Board of Adjustment might agree.
If the ALPA lawyers refuse to take the case then we need to fire them and do a little outsourcing of our own.
Well, once again you are completely wrong on your facts. First, they settled the Pan Am case because the PILOTS on the Pan Am MEC acted inappropriately during the Delta acquisition. The lawyers were brought in to clean up the mess left behind by the Pan Am MEC.
The RJDC was settled for less than a million dollars simply to make the lawsuit go away. It would have cost many multiple millions to try the case and our lawyers made a settlement for partial legal fees and a "meet and confer" clause over scope negotiations. Maybe you would prefer a lawyer that will just run up the bill on you, but professionals don't do that. (the DPA lawyer has basically run his current client, USAPA, out of money, so maybe that is why he is looking for fresh meat)
Don't know the specifics of the UAL case and neither do you. Who made the mistakes? If someone commits a wrongdoing, you can't blame the lawyers because there is a cost to it.
The lawyers at Cohen Weiss and Simon could make much more money if they sold out labor and went corporate.
So what is the significance of the ruling by the government? Well at least I admit I don't know, you pretend you know but you just bluster away with no substance behind your bluster. If this changes the situation, we will have professional labor lawyers, the best in the country, to help us sort through the meaning of this and then file a grievance if it's warranted.
Or we could just flounder away like giant blowhards on the internet.