The Mackenzie Report
 

The NMB appoints Jim Mackenzie mediator

As stated in last Friday’s Negotiating Committee Update, the Association and the Company jointly requested the services of the National Mediation Board (NMB) on December 17th. The NMB has accepted our request and assigned Jim Mackenzie as our mediator.

Prior to joining the NMB, Jim completed 31 years as a commercial pilot for a number of major airlines, retiring from Northwest Airlines in 2006 as an Airbus Captain. Following retirement, Jim was a Captain B-777/787 Instructor pilot for Alteon, a Boeing Company and an aviation consultant. He spent 30 years working in various positions for the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) including Chairman of the NWA Pilot Retirement and Insurance Committee and a member of the NWA Unsecured Creditors Committee as well Co-Chairman on the PeopleExpress Merger Committee. A Navy pilot, he spent 5 years flying the A-4 Skyhawk on active duty in the Western Pacific and 9 years in the Reserves as an adversary pilot.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Masters in Business Management from the University of Kansas. Mr. Mackenzie has been with the NMB for a little over two years.

We look forward to working with him as we negotiate the JCBA under the Railway Labor Act.

Anybody have any intel on this guy? Good/Bad/Indifferent?

It all sounds good to me...

My first reaction too. And that's what has caused pessimism to kick in...

The general impression I get is good. Which also scares me.

Tom Stivala was a good salesman too. Been there, done that.

I don't have a dog in this fight but I knew Jim well from PE/NWA. Good guy. Very smart. Like any SLI, he should be fair depending on which side your on.

This is for a contract not SLI. A contract, that thing that Richard Anderson was smart enough to take care of in the early part of DAL-NWA merger.

Yeah, Sorry. Re-read the previous post. Still believe he will do a good job. Good luck. Having a combined CBA early is a big part of a successful merger

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What exactly is the mediation FOR? is it for the Contract?, JCBA? or the SLI?? And if he can settle One, can't he stay until the entire contract is settled including the SLI or am I asking for too much? To be candid, I don't know the proceedure so I'm asking just to be enlightened..