Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
None of us has any idea whether that will be important in any future SLI. Only the arbitrators know for sure. So I'll say again: There is no such thing as the pre-nup that you desire. No such thing. If merging DCI pilots onto our seniority list in order to achieve "unity" is really that important to you, you need to be ready to accept whatever an arbitrator decides.
Are you serious? Where's the quid for them? DCI pilots get merged onto our seniority list as long as they go through our hiring process...and you ask where's the quid for them? Does the term: Winning the lottery come to mind? Do you know how many military guys there are that would give their eye teeth for that opportunity? And do you know how many extremely qualified military guys there are that can't even get an interview?
Carl
Carl;
For some that will be great, but for some that is a loss of longevity and bidding rights. That is all a few want. If you can give that to the senior few, and a number to the rest, you could do it outside of an Arbitration. If they get greedy, well then, it becomes what it becomes.
We can always go the traditional way, and make them hire in to their old jobs, but that does nothing for the value of a trade union. That is fine if we must, but there should be the goal of helping fellow pilots out.
Before we go down this road of how we will have an SLI, lets just worry about getting the flying we are allowing to be flown off our list, back on our list. DAL will need pilots by the groves by then, and much more so if we are successful. By pure fact that most of these pilots have applications on file here, a SLI would use this fact, just like LUV will do against AAI. It is easy to prove value when needed. In regard to F9 and RJET, that was a different animal, and being the acquiring carrier. This would not be a traditional SLI. We own the flying today, and will always. That is why, I suspect the only way we could ever do a deal with DCI pilots would be though agreement. If not, you way wins, and all of those pilots will reset longevity and blame ALPA for it.