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Originally Posted by EWR73FO (Post 1138239)

As long as it will take to complete a JCBA, a suspect it will take even longer for an SLI. I hope we all get the career progression we all want.

SLI is to be completed within 90 days of achieving a TA'd JCBA.

An interesting observation from this thread......when it's a bunch of relatively junior guys (who the SLI probably affects most directly), a consensus forms pretty quickly and there seems to be a willingness to settle on neutral ground. As soon as a few of these senior wackos get involved it becomes a ****ing match, winner take all. It gives me some hope that this'll be a decent place to work in 10-15 years.

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Originally Posted by kc135driver (Post 1138080)

I know most of you guys don't want a staple job, anymore than I'd want a DOH situation. It is not right. Problem is, and we all know it, both of our MC's will argue from these extreme positions, giving the arbitrator a pretty wide range to miss and get it wrong, in my opinion. It is basic arbitration theory, the closer the sides are going into arbitration the more equitable the decision. Sorry, I don't buy into the theory floating around here that it is all out of hands. BS! It is and will be in the hands of our elected reps.

I think a lot of the fear is from the union receiving a lawsuit from pilots who didn't get what they wanted in the integration if the MECs reach an agreement. It's such a difficult topic that who knows what'll happen in a court of law. The other problem is the points the MECs will be arguing from are vastly different. Maybe not America West-US Air different, but certainly not as similar as DAL-NWA.

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Originally Posted by CALFO (Post 1138241)

SLI is to be completed within 90 days of achieving a TA'd JCBA.

I believe that's the point at which it goes to arbitration (or maybe the mediation before arbitration).

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Originally Posted by XHooker (Post 1138565)

I believe that's the point at which it goes to arbitration (or maybe the mediation before arbitration).

You may be right. I thought I had read that the seniority integration was to be completed within 90 days of a TA but I checked and don't see that written anywhere in the TPA.