The answer to your question is so mind-numbingly simple I'm going to guess there won't be more than 1 in 1,000 east pilots who could give you a correct response. Facts, logic and having a grasp of the obvious are just things that get in the way of their irrational mis-characterizations of the NIC award.
You can't possible be serious.
Perhaps because using any other method other than what was determined by binding arbitration would be a breach of contract and a breach of USAPA's duty to fair representation under a JCBA. You can't do it that way today or anytime prior to the joint contract because seniority for both east and west groups has already been established in the current CBA's under section 22 of the respective contracts. Filling vacant positions is determined by contractual agreements. Contrary to what is often posted here, when people violate the terms of a contract they usually find themselves on the losing end of a court ruling. The other problem with your proposal is that doing so would require Management complicity and since they are notoriously adverse to exposing the company to legal liabilities, they won't go along with out of seniority pilot assignments which are clearly defined in the CBA's.
You know this act where you all just play stupid and pretend not to understand the most basic functions of your profession is getting a little old. It's cost you over a billion dollars and when AA is through with you, you'll be begging for Nic. Hopefully the majority of Easties are a hell of a lot smarter than you and choose the only candidates that have a prayer of moving fwd. and protecting you in the next merger. Ferguson/Koontz/Holmes.
Its done in compliance with Section 22 of the CBA just like it's done at AAA and every other represented pilot group in the USA. That is also how it will be done once USAPA (or whoever the next CBA might be) and Management get a ratified JCBA to replace LOA93 & C2004. I would say a a general rule, airlines that haven't gone through a merger are organized by DOH (like HP prior to 2005) while those that have gone through a merger or acquisition process are no longer organized via a DOH because DOH becomes less meaningful when two or more separate companies are integrated into one.
If the ALPA merger policy call for integration by DOH, then there would not be a discussion about this today. If USAPA had existed prior to the merger and the signing of the TA, and USAPA's merger policy was agreed to by both representative groups, then it wouldn't be an issue either. However, trying to retroactively enforce a policy change against existing legal agreements is probably futile unless you get a judge who makes things up as they go along rather than reading the letter of the law or the letter of the agreements signed between parties. Expecting Silver to deviate from those tenets is quite a tall order IMO.
They get all this. They're just hoping that if they keep playing dumb the rest of society will begin to see it their way.
So in fact doh would take something the west ( the nic)has and redistribute it to the east, isn't that right?
