But you did get to decide. You voted for your local reps. You allowed them to represent you. Just like your domicile reps represent you now.
Your LOCAL reprs made the agreement for you. Not ALPA national. The guys that you elected made the agreement and bound you to it. That is the way this works. No different than usapa.
Did you get to vote for the merger committee reps, did I? Did you get to help decide on the fake C&R`s that usapa is trying to sell? So if usapa wins in court and forces DOH with C&R on the west. Can the west claim like you that since I did not get to vote for the merger committee or the C&R that it does not count? That I don't have to live with those rules? That is what you are claiming here.
You see a MAJORITY of east pilots voted for your local reps. That means that a MAJORITY of east pilots agreed with what they did. What they did was bind you to arbitration.
They represent me, but they don't VOTE for me! They form commitees, but they don't bind me under the major agreements we have control over NOW unless and until we have a vote. ALPA allowed the MECs to negotiate side letters that bound the rank and file in the past but we changed that and oh, side letters can ALWAYS be amended INCLUDING SENIORITY!
ALPA, USAPA, Teamsters, etc. NEGOTIATE for a CBA on all of our behalf. They CANNOT bind you. THAT IS THE WAY THIS WORKS as the Ninth Circuit says:
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Although absence of a CBA might be evidence of a DFR violation, if the violation were based on deliberate delay by the union,
it is not evidence of a union’s improper preference of one seniority system over another. As demonstrated by ALPA’s similar difficulties in reaching a CBA, the pilot groups, and
individual pilots with their ratification/nonratification powers, are the major contributors to the absence of a CBA in these circumstances.
I am claiming here that IF & WHEN a CBA becomes availible for you & I and every other pilot on the premises WHO ARE MIGS get to vote to ratify or not ratify the CBA they negotiated. Every pilot on this property, save YOU understand that.
NO VOTE, NO COMBINED LIST. Keep living in the dream world. You guys keep suiing and keep losing.
Good luck.