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No that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that The federal Government passed a law about 6 months ago forcing "Federally Mandated Arbitration" if the two sides can't come to an agreement. This comes into play if there are two different unions like APA (AA) and ALPA (TWA) merging. When it's ALPA vs APLA it's goes to arbitration anyway so the law doesn't apply. Now that ALPA is off the property I think that the West guys have a pretty good argument to have it go to the federally mandated arbitration again. That may be good or bad who knows. If the west is still operating under a separate contract then I would think you have an argument by saying we are two separate groups so the federally mandated arbitration should apply.
If the initial arbitration holds then it's a non issue.
Just thinking out loud
The law applies to mergers after the date the law was enacted.