CAL '05/'06 hires merged in with UAL '98 hires is a 'slaughtering'?
If measuring seniority list integrations was from a purely DOH perspective then your questioning might hold water. But the reason these things go through a complex legal process, where both sides present their case, is because other important variables are added in (status/ category, career expectations, etc). A 1998 hire is super junior at UAL; or at least was until this award. He, or she, gains big, while that '05 hire moves backwards in actual percentage. So they move up (GAIN SENIORITY), we move back (LOSE SENIORITY) A windfall for the UAL group.
That and FURLOUGHED pilots, that is, those WITHOUT A JOB, get merged in with active. Again, a windfall. I don't see how the arbitrators saw it differently. But they did. So it is what it is.
And yet, I noticed they seem admit the "award" for our side is unfair anyway but so what. On page 23 they say:
"At the end of the day, despite our best efforts,
we were unable to find a way to adjust or modify the CAL Committee's list build model
to produce an acceptably fair and equitable ISL. Even with a different snapshot date, contrived differentials premised on post-merger changes inflating premerger career expectations still drive that ersatz ratioed model."
Like I said, it is what it is. A binding award that, unless fraud can be proved, cannot be overturned. Sooooooo...
Congrats to the UAL guys. They won, we lost. We move on from here.
But word to the gloaters, try to be professional. You don't need to point out the obvious.
