And I guess my friends at SWA who disagree with the ignorance you arer spewing here are also his friends too. So far you seem to be in the extreme minority with your views. There should be pages and pages of SWA pilots agreeing with you if what you say is true, but there are not.
And besides that, what if the other pilot group just magically decided that, in the event of a merger, you should all be fired and required to reinterview at the bottom of the list, if management decided to hire you? Would you accept that? What if the other pilot group thought your culture was inferior?
Do you really think any arbitrator will care who'se culture is the best? Do you think that because of your culture you will get one seniority number more oe less than someone else becasue of their company's culture? You will get a combination of what's in your contract, what's in the other company's contract, the law and most likely an arbitrator's decision. None of that will take into consideration culture for one microsecond.
The only "culture protection" you have is your management worrying enough about it to not attempt to make a move like that in the first place. If they do, you will end up in the exact same position you would have without your culture and without the interview process you are so proud that you got through.
Maybe you got a tad arrogant because you think that because your company bought some ATA assets and they only got interviews, that any and all mergers/acquisitons/takeovers/etc will go that way as a matter of your superior culture. You are both wrong in fact and extremely arrogant in opinion. Your culture will not overcome contracts and labor law, except maybe in your dreams.[/quote
If thats the case i tell you what go ask your friends for their login info to our union website and see for yourself. second if your friends are not man enough to tell you how they feel thats not my problem again i say go look at our website. And last that is why in the end we will never buy anyone if anything we will by airplanes. culture is what has made this company such a great place to work and if you or lear 70 think that mgt or the union or the pilot group is going to throw that away than you are saddly mistaken. If you can tell me that you would just sit back and watch your sen. number just slip away because your company bought someone that you are better person then me but I think you would be right there asking for a staple.
Like I said before there are plenty of threads about airlines other then SW go troll somewhere else and stop acting like a jeolus little girl.