Occam's Razor
Risible...ALWAYS risible
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Huh? Show me the stock ticker symbol for ALPA. This is an ALPA gig...not a DAL, Inc or NWA, Inc gig. YCLIU!
This is no longer negotiations - it's a civil proceeding. That statement does apply to simultaneous ongoing negotiations.
You're wrong. This event can be closed just like an MEC meeting can be closed. If you insist it must be public, then produce the statute that requires it.
Good point - it also allows one side or both to go in there behind closed doors and attempt to trash the other side (you should be happy to wear the XXX uniform, you'd be out of business without our saving you, we need to teach you guys how to fly, etc.) with outrageous stuff that would certainly cause animosity on one side or the other, and then hope we can be have group hugs after the arbitration is over because no one really said that.
Precisely! I'd prefer to keep that parochial stick-poking away from the pilot groups.
Guess we'll need designated bloggers or stenographers - but even if it's closed we'll still probably get transcripts, if not as timely, so there will be no hiding of tactics in the end.
Right-o!
I'm sure it'll be a 200-post thread on the Algonquin Round Table (ALPA Web Board). Great reading, and chock-full of deeply intellectual analysis...
If we fail to reach a negotiated deal it'll prove we're dorks. Both sides. I don't need a daily report from partisans to know that arbitrations are ugly.
I don't believe that for a second
Then you didn't read it correctly! I don't care how the arbitration is conducted...open or closed. Got that? I care about the results...duh!