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Zone5, on 03 May 2012 - 11:06 AM, said:
Furthermore, the West has already written the book on how the minority can throw legal roadblocks in front of a JCBA. Lets see, file a DFR, get an injunction maintaining the status quo and were all off to the races, again, sloooowly. Don't think there would be enough East pilots to fund their own "Army"? Think again, like I said you guys have already written the book and I'm sure there are plenty of "smarty pants " lawyers out there who would love to get paid to write a few more chapters!.
The East pilots (assuming Silver rules in favor of the NIC) have exactly two legal maneuvers left. Appeal Silver to the 9th. Appeal the 9th to SCOTUS. That's it.
Dougweiser will most assuredly structure the deal to avoid the East CoC language. The NMB will find a single system. The APA will take over (either by vote or by decree). The only thing left is seniority, which will be arbitration between the APA list and the Nic list.
If, for whatever reasons Silver does not force the NIC, that will be re-litigated just as soon as USAPA tries to pass a non-NIC list across to the arbitrator. Or APA tries to use a non-NIC list. In which case, a large chunk of the East pilots will likely enjoy LOA 93 until retirement while the APA guys are raking in the dough.
Really what this comes down to is whether the East pilots are willing to finally accept their previous arbitration award, or work under LOA 93 until the DFR is finally found ripe while the other half of the new company enjoys a massive pay differential. I'd say there's no way anyone can be that stupid, but as mentioned before--I won't fly on East metal anymore, because I don't think having someone at the helm who would strategically lose a game of checkers to a 5 year old or cut off their own nose to spite their face is wise.
