I don't recall that as being ...umm...Mike.
Have you watched the Nov CLT crewnews?
Parker sums up the Silver ruling real nice. DOH is dead. Usapa has no threat, but the West....well let's just say.."some peoples rights would be violated" and the company is on the hook if usapa delivers anything other than the Nic.
BTW...we don't hate you guys...we just hate that your stupidity is costing us all a ton of money.
New catch phrase on the West..."reparations".....you are going to see either a bump and flush or a very large damages award...so I am guessing the company will opt for the bump and flush. this is inclusive if there is an AMR deal.
Oh, one more thing..."tilting at windmills" is a Don Quiote reference, and usapa is a classic example of the delusion involved.
If you are referring to the question(s) asked by one of our pilots (whom I know but won't name him here) about Cargo and Silvers ruling (two questions in one) Parker absolutely did NOT say that....you left out one KEY word: "MIGHT". Judge Silvers "Dicta" in here order is used again to call confusion to the situation and in fact, as I said before, I HOPE THEY APPEAL, just like Parker said the company "MAY" appeal.
I agree with the company. I even agree with what he said in the video. But he did NOT sum up the Silver ruling "real nice". He absolutely DID NOT SAY "DOH IS DEAD".
I just rewatched the video THREE TIMES just to be sure....HE DID NOT SAY THAT!
What he DID say was that, and I quote:
"that one court saying its not ripe, but once is is ripe we MIGHT find ourselves in a serious situation with USAPA and possibly the company violating the rights of some individuals reinforced by Judge Silvers ruling. That's one problem and on the other hand USAPA, the bargaining agent, that were required to negotiate with, STATING that that is NOT the seniority list they choose to negotiate to. So, thats one problem, WERE NOT, BY ANY MEANS, TRYING TO PICK SIDES ON THIS...were just, you know, betwix and between what do we do? We had hoped judge Silver would have solved that for us, but she didn't. But indeed she pretty much just reinforced....ah, restated the problem..and, umm, restated it even more strongly. So, at any rate, were trying to figure ut what we're going to do about that.
Post her ruling, there were filings made by both USAPA and um, the West pilots, that we thought, reineforced, yet again, how irreconcilable these differences are and they can't be resolved so we simply made a filing that said "look at this", you know, since you made your ruling, please reconsider. So thats what this is, we'll see what she says, but...but that's all it was. NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS. Another effort by us to see if we can get a ruling. So, ah, if it doesn't happen, we'll have to figure out what we'll do and (stammering) last time in PHX....we may appeal. Which I'm certain that if we due that we get accused of trying to delay....to the extent that if the NMB thinks it makes sense gets to the point of trying to restart negotiations, we restart negotiation again, that our problem that we keep saying out loud is the negotiations don't move at a rapid pace because we DON'T HAVE A SENIORITY LIST THAT IS AGREED UPON...they don't agree with what you guys say you guys don't agree with what they say and yet again, WE DON'T HAVE THIS RESOLVED TO THE POINT WHERE THE COMPANY IS CERTAIN WHAT SENIORITY LIST WE CAN NEGOTIATE TOWARD. It makes the negotiations NOT go very fast. So we would really like to see this resolved. So, its a difficult situation I wish we'd get resolved but, she didn't help much which is not a complaint by the judge by the way but indeed her comments ruling she made is she didn't have the authority to over-rule what the Ninth circuit said but, it's STILL UNRESOLVED."
NO WHERE DID HE SAY DOH WAS DEAD. I just transcribed it, go listen to it again and tell me if I transcribed out of context. I'm not a transcriptionist but I think I got it. Obviously, YOU DIDN'T.
If USAPA wants to resolve it, appeal it with the company and the West and let the Ninth hear oral argument....AGAIN and let them state clearly and unequivically what the answer is, this is called APPEAL DE NOVO.
BTW, that's NOT what Mike "we hate you guys"______ mean't. His facial actions and body language proved otherwise. (I got that tape).
What I WILL agree with all the West pilots and the Company is that they want a "seniority resolution NOW", not what Pat, Roland and O'Dwyer want getting crammed down from the USAPA leadership is the contract first then the money. USAPA LEADERSHIP in general but especially STEVE BRAFORD has failed all of us on this point and who has sold all of us down the road with this tripe and has yet again shouldered no leadership.
