Its been going on for over a year now.
UAL MEC Update for Friday, August 27, 2010
Letter From United MEC Merger Committee
"Fellow United Pilots,
Your Merger Committee is about to enter the negotiation phase of the Seniority List Integration (SLI) process. We have spent the past several months accumulating our pilot seniority data, exchanging the pilot seniority list with the CAL Merger Committee and analyzing the CAL seniority list. In the upcoming integrated seniority list negotiation phase, we want to get to an “apples to apples” comparison of our respective pilot groups to the maximum extent possible. Please note that the seniority list negotiation phase is separate and apart from JCBA (Joint Collective Bargaining Agreement) negotiations being conducted by the Joint Negotiating Committee. The negotiating committees deal with the contract while the merger committees deal with seniority list integration. In past seniority list integrations, the two sides have typically been able to reach some agreement on treatment of pilots on military leave, sick leave/disability, etc. during the seniority list integration negotiations."