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Let's see if I can summarize this.

USAPA and APA agreed to an MOU for the merger before the merger. Part of the MOU said that the two would agree to a "seniority integration protocol" agreement (essentially a document as to how seniority list discussions were going to go IF the merger happened).

APA insisted that they have the ability to unilaterally change language in the MOU after they become the single union (could be this year)... and USAPA didn't like this... it took away the US pilot's ability to adequately oversee seniority integrations.

The MOU also stated that the seniority lists would come together in a "fair and equitable" manner, per McCaskill-Bond legislation (which was written to prevent another TWA/AA staple job).

However, the wolf in sheep's clothing is that the McCaskill-Bond legislation is thrown out the window once the two pilot groups have one union (presumably APA) and the union's internal merger policy supersedes. An internal merger policy can be changed at any time...you can see where this is going.

This is how it has been explained to me. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

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This is why USAPA is suing to have a Merger Protocol Agreement that preserves our Merger Committee and it's respective leadership, which will as now be limited to four officers.


Correct.

 

Thanks. Hate to ask such an obvious question, but that was helpful.

 

He told you complete bs. Usapa agreed to have a single union and as usual are going back on their word . This about the east screwing the west, they are terrified the west is given a voice.
PS. A federal judge in az told them they could not participate once we were a single carrier

 

A321,
East and west will be run over roughshod by the APA. The issue for US pilots is the pecking order of our side.

Your point is not lost on any west pilot. As a west pilot, I do not consider the APA to be a white knight, but rather a dark horse.

 

Any guesses to what will happen with the new hires after the merger? With AA hiring at the same time how will that factor in? Everyone assumes that the folks hired after the Dec merger close date will be slotted in by DOH but is that a certainty, or is APA looking to staple pretty much everyone on the US side below their own folks?

Any thoughts on if this integration will even go thru at all? They ran the east-west separate for years, closing in on a decade. Heck if this merger hadn't of happened, would they have kept east-west separate forever? Almost seems that way.

 

So you're saying that the "evil empire" (east/USAPA), who cared so much about protecting their relative seniority that they were willing to decertify ALPA, renig on binding arbitration, and operate as a separate pilot group for a lower hourly rate than west pilots, "agreed to have a single union" (APA) and thereby no substantial influence in the pending seniority integration?

I'm new and probably clueless, but that dog don't hunt. What did I miss?

 

That's a possibility, the "snapshot date" was never decided on and there are rumors there may not even be a snapshot date.

 

That dog don't hunt? Maybe you should read the mou and then Silvers findings. The east has done nothing but harm themselves from not freezing their retirement to booting alpa, nothing has changed.