If you were the CEO, and a 55% majority of your most highly compensated employees offered to work for the lowest rate in the industry in perpetuity, what would you do?
Congrats, by voting in a scab union you deferred the Nic for 9 years, at a cost of approx $1/2 million per pilot, and by sacrificing your future seniority when an equipment and status integration is almost certainly going to be used.
The Nic is in all three arbitrator's files, two committee's proposals.
What is in the janitor's closet in Tempe is the mop the AAPSIC is using to clean house in the current SLI.[/quote
November 11, 2008 (Q&A in Phoenix with Doug Parker)
Pilot: . . . . My question though is I was at the hearing for the furloughed guys and one of the possibilities they were discussing is moving 190s to the west and can’t do that. You know why.
Parker: Why
Pilot: Binding arbitration. So the company believes in binding arbitration. We have a binding arbitration for seniority. Does the company believe in binding arbitration or not?
Parker: The binding arbitration you’re talking about I think – I’m pretty sure what you are talking about – that was an ALPA process that resulted in binding arbitration. That wasn’t a company process. That’s ALPA to ALPA seniority integration that says if you can’t get it resolved we go to binding arbitration is ALPA policy not company policy. If the company’s in binding arbitration, yea we believe in binding arbitration.