A lot of very experienced arbitrators in this thread so far. I love me a good absolute.

Uuuhhh ccchhhhhYeah if we were at will employees doing mid level IT in the pharmaceutical industry……Son we have CBAs that are governed by the Railway Labor Act of 1925.

Hahahahahaha guess you nor anyone from your family worked for TWA

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Fences are generally time limited and somewhat rare. They also usually apply only to equipment on the property as of the constructive date of merger.

unless you’re discussing Northwest and Republic. One airline had widebodies and the other didn’t. Fence stayed forever.

They only stayed for 20 years. Lol. When I flew with Republic pilots 22 years later, they were not happy. Divided airline for decades. I believe new hires at post merged airline were not fenced which is where the animosity came in. The Republic pilots rightfully didn’t think it was right being fenced off widebodies so pilots hired post merger could fly them instead.

This created the ninjas. As the old Northwest pilots retired, the new hires bid into widebodies as fast as possible. In my opinon, most of these guys were entitled *******s who thought they were better than everyone else. Kind of like some of our post 2022 hires.

my mistake. I thought it was a forever fence.

Might as well been forever. The new hires that filled the positions were obviously younger than the Republic pilots so when fence dropped in 2006, there no open positions to bid. Republic pilots were chasing displacements to they could displace into 747 captain.