I hear that there are lots of midwest pilots on the street. Any news on when those pilots will have jobs at Republic?
Unless the ball is already rolling, the next logical step for Midwest ALPA is to file a petition for single carrier status with the NMB. Once that is approved, the law passed in Dec 2008 (H.R. 2764) allows only 20 days of negotiations until seniority integration is sent to an arbitrator and the arbitrator must make a decision within 90 days.
This is what ATA should have done when they were bought "as a whole" (according the the bankruptcy judge) by Southwest....but ATA never even filed the petition with the NMB to start the ball rolling. I would hate to see the same thing happen to Midwest pilots.
Unless the ball is already rolling, the next logical step for Midwest ALPA is to file a petition for single carrier status with the NMB. Once that is approved, the law passed in Dec 2008 (H.R. 2764) allows only 20 days of negotiations until seniority integration is sent to an arbitrator and the arbitrator must make a decision within 90 days.
This is what ATA should have done when they were bought "as a whole" (according the the bankruptcy judge) by Southwest....but ATA never even filed the petition with the NMB to start the ball rolling. I would hate to see the same thing happen to Midwest pilots.