ALPA's take on the UsAir merger

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Originally Posted by PlaneDrvr
So what's your point?? So you believe that if the company thinks that the US Air pilots are not 'working toward a joint contract' that the company can just 'force a contract down their throats'??

Also on Wednesday, we entered into a philosophical discussion between the two sets of JNC representatives and management regarding the process for moving this negotiation to completion.

Management indicated that this process was not advancing us toward a conclusion and suggested that we jointly apply for mediation as provided for under the Transition Agreement (although the TA does not require a joint request for mediation).
We indicated our interest in proceeding to mediation while Captain Stephan spoke on behalf of the East MEC and indicated that his MEC was not interested in anything that would advance the implementation of the Nicolau Award.

Management also indicated that the East MEC’s notion that separate and permanent contracts for the two pilot groups, as expressed in a recent East MEC Resolution, was not what management had in mind when they discussed a temporary period of separate operations. In fact, management claimed that the East resolution was in violation of the Transition Agreement.
~JNC Update Aug 9, 2007

The company is in business to make money. We are a part of that plan. They can't shove a contract down anyone's throat, but they can start legal action to get things going.