You got it pants. The really funny part of all of this is ALPA itself referred to Baptiste and Wilder in the MDA lawsuit with regard to backing their defense. Internal Union Affairs. The boys here just don't seem to have the inclination to wrap their minds around that awesome concept. No court can or will dictate to a union how they order their house with regard to seniority.
No, they are not really so interested in USAPA as the part they are really interested in. The part about how someone inside the company gave them sensitive information with regards to flight crews, and the one that really piques ones interest. That would be the fact the compromised data could have links to information regarding FFDO personnel, and their home addresses. That is the one that really gets peoples attention in law enforcement.
Unless of course there was a multi-party agreement between Management and the individual labor groups which specifically elucidated a process for how a new, integrated seniority list would be developed, and that specific process was followed all the way to the combined list being presented to and accepted by Management with consideration (money) provided in exchange for the same. Did B&W or ALPA mention anything about a multi-party transition agreement complicating the “internal union affairs” part of their legal opinions and briefs? If not, then they have missed a very important part of this issue and citing them doesn’t really help the cause. Management understands this. Wake understands this. Bybee understands this. Tashima and Graber seemed to have missed this in their haste to side with the union, as any good liberal judge is expected to do.
Golf,
You are even funnier! The punch line was your reference to the jury that said you're wrong. That is the jury in the remanded trial, and the one with the clean slate. Just because you didn't read it doesn t mean we didn't..........
I ask again. What EVIDENCE do you have that it came from inside the company?
If USAPA has the “exclusive” right to change agreements, then why not march into Tempe and convert crew scheduling to DOH and then go over to the payroll department and give the east pilots top of the industry pay rates to make up for the many, many years east pilots have had to suffer the atrocities of working for US Airways? If you have the “exclusive” right to change previous agreements then go ahead and show us all how much power and authority USAPA really has. Or is USAPA an even bigger failure than all of us had presumed in that they have 'exclusive" power and yet haven’t accomplished a single improvement for the plight of their cherished constituents? Perhaps you would like to rephrase your assertion that the new agent has the "exclusive" rights to change anything they please. Perhaps USAPA has underestimated the power and rights Management has, even if its not "exclusive".
Golf,
And you seem to be out of cogent arguments or witty retorts, so we can leave it at that. Perhaps $eham will explain the coherence of my statements if you are willing to hire him to read simple English sentences for you.
Why worry. The TSA is all over it right.
