Originally Posted by
HSLD
Because both MEC's negotiated a transition agreement that expires (for many of the protections) in Dec. 2011. That is what's amazing to me, after a decade of misery, the MEC believed that we'd have a contract last Oct. and agreed to TA protections that only lasted for 18 months.
To be clear, ALPA did this. The company will get all the synergy they need, just none of the goodwill from labor. DDSS.
Hsld,
Not sure this is accurate. The way I understand it, CAL ALPA had protections built into their existing CBA. UAL ALPA did not. So our MEC had to go beg for similar protections. As I recall, the Company was having none of it. It took MONTHS just to get the pos TA that we got. Certainly better than nothing...which is what we had.
Sled