I've written some of the candidates and asked them the following question - no answer thus far.
Should Judge Silver render a ruling which favors the Addington group, or which prompts the company to take the position that they will not expose themselves to a hybrid DFR, would USAPA consider the following:
Grant, bestow, bequeath or whatever you wish to call it, a one time, one issue, defacto veto authority to the PHX domicile on the issue of the SLI.
IOW, return to the west some measure of autonomy and authority much as they enjoyed when they were represented by their own MEC in the days preceding the representational election in 2008.
I know this sounds off the wall, but USAPA has considerable latitude in setting its own protocals. ALPA tried something similar with the Rice Commission and Wye River.
If we don't have a joint seniority list which is IMPLEMENTED so that we are actually bidding based on that list - and if we don't have a JCBA which takes us off LOA93 and C2004, then whatever merger comes along will mean we get to go to the abattoir.
APA, for example, will look at our pay rates, number of W/B aircraft, laugh at our DOH language (or insist that their 1600 furloughees exercise their DOH rights) and offer (out of generosity) to staple us to the bottom of their list.
If we invoke McCaskill-Bond, then that means negotiation, mediation and arbitration....once again. The arbitrator will consider the above factors, along with the absence of a DOH based SLI since Reagan was president, and probably rule as Nicolau did (if we're lucky).
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