I am not using a dictionary. I am using the [B]FACT[/B] that USAirways was not in CH 7. IOW NOT liquidating.[/QUOTE]You should use a dictionary because your definition of "viable" is incorrect. Even a company not in bankruptcy could be considered nonviable.[quote]Exit financing grew on trees in 2005.[/quote]...yet somehow US Airways was unable to get any. US Airways hadn't even filed an exit plan let alone lined up the financing. Your revisionist view of history isn't convincing.[quote]Everything else is just red herring in order to try and justify an unfair award.[/quote]I don't have justify anything. Unfairness is purely subjective. Oh, and don't forget that even the East's pilot neutral agreed almost entirely with Nicolau. Since you're such a good judge of unfairness perhaps United or Continental will choose you to be theirs.[quote]No, you're not listening. He "blew it" not because I think so, but because so many other arbitrations have come out lopsided, unfair, B.S. to one pilot group or another.[/quote]That's circuitous logic. You say it's not because you think so but because you think so. Try again.[quote] This award actually drove a group to incite a movement, and vote ALPA off of a property.[/quote]Nope, a skewed sense of entitlement drove ALPA off the property. Most Easties (and you if you're not one) fail to recognize that their careers were ruined by management and bankruptcy courts. Nicolau didn't make that ruin, he [I]sustained[/I] it.[quote]Is the group cohesive? Is the single seniority list in effect? Nope. It takes two to tangle. The west is JUST as hard headed as the east.[/quote]My question was how the West was to blame and that's your answer? That's like Saddam Hussein blaming Kuwait for the 1990 invasion. The East is the aggressor and the West is the victim. Nice try blaming the victim.[quote]
Very true. However, there is a difference between not liking the decision, and being so incensed that you resort to the nuclear option. [/quote]I tried looking that up in ALPA Merger Policy, the NMB, and the NLRB, and gosh-darn it I just couldn't find it. Now I know you must be an Eastie since you're making up rules as you go along. Mr. Seham, is that you?[quote]I don't disagree, unless there is enough egregiousness in the award that there is evidence of bias, rules not being followed, or some other core. Courts have appeals processes. This is the manner in which one side chose to appeal the process.[/quote]What in the sam hill are you talking about? There's no court case against the Nicolau Award and there never has been.[quote]Somebody better figure out something.[/quote]Hey, we're working on it. Fighting against the tyranny of the majority isn't easy, you know.
