cactusboy53 said:
Really Cubby? Let's see what the dictionary says: "A Lot" - very many, a large number; also, very much.
I don't think you have a sun's RAY of understanding what "a lot" means. Frankly, I think it's CRIMInal for you to continue to cast such aspersions, when you live in a glass house - so to speak.
Dave
Cute.
How many more days until Mitch Vaselino and Eric roll out their 2005 moth eaten Nicolau list?
Word has it Jeff Freund is trying to talk the 2004 hires out of their scheme, but they will not listen. Jeff has laid out some very compelling evidence about his past beliefs regarding the Nic.
U-Turn has always believed the NIC had to be accepted. The TA speaks for itself, or does it? Today, were not so sure. There was Doug Parkers statement in the Training Center on July 8th that he thought the NIC was negotiable (well see what happenswe wont draw line in the sand). That statement tracks with what our own Merger Attorney wrote in court-filed papers last summer. He said the company has no obligation to accept the Nicolau Award. Read the next paragraph from his response to last summers absurd East MEC Vs West MEC law suit. The East MEC was the plaintiff. Freunds reply to the East MEC lawsuit (emphasis added):
1.Thus, the arbitration award Plaintiffs purportedly seek to vacate is in actuality the proposed pilot seniority list developed through ALPAs Merger policy that ALPA will adopt as its bargaining position to be presented to the Company, but which (like a union bargaining position in any matter) the Company is not required to accept. Application, Ex.1 at 2,9 (ALPA will present to the company the merged seniority list developed through ALPAs Merger policy arbitration procedures, and ALPA will use all reasonable means at its disposal to compel the company to accept and implement the merged seniority list). Plaintiffs seek review of this ALPA bargaining position developed through ALPA Merger Policy, and, while couching it in the terms of vacating and arbitration, the relief they actually seek is a review of the product of ALPAs Merger Policy, and, ultimately, alteration of ALPAs bargaining proposal to the companyPlaintiffs Application to vacate an arbitration award that does not establish any enforceable seniority rights in a collective bargaining agreement with the Company, but which merely sets out ALPAs bargaining position to be presented to the company, is not a state law claim at all but rather an artfully pled Federal claim for breech of Duty of Fair Representation.
Our MECs merger (and now AWAPPAs) attorney said the NIC was in actuality the proposed seniority list developed through ALPAs Merger policy that ALPA will adopt as its bargaining position to be presented to the company, but whichthe company is not required to accept, that it is only a part of ALPA overall bargaining proposal, and that NIC does not establish any enforceable seniority rights in a collective bargaining agreement with the Company. The way we read the above is that since the Nicolau seniority list isnt enforceable on the company, the East had no right to challenge it last summer.
If you think were taking the above out of context, Google and read the entire response, prepared by West Merger Attorney. Case 1:07-cv-01309-EGS Document 1 Filed 07/24/2007 Freunds response for the West MEC is 125 pages, but the important pages are 3-6. They spell out exactly what our Merger attorney thinks about whether the company must accept the NIC. According to him, they dont.
WHAT WILL JEFF FREUND SAY WHEN HE IS PUT ON THE WITNESS STAND????
