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Subject: Special MEC Meeting
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 22:53:06 -0400
May 6, 2007
Dear Fellow Pilots,
We remain in session this evening at 11pm at the Special MEC meeting in Herndon. The MEC met today in mostly closed session to discuss our options in response to the devastating seniority integration we received last week.
We started the meeting by questioning Captain Jim Brucia (the Continental pilot who was selected by our committee's the pilot neutral on the Merger Arbitration Panel) on the decision making process that was followed for constructing the final list. He is the pilot who wrote the dissenting opinion of the award. He objected to placing our furloughed pilots on the bottom of the merged list and that the placement of this group of our pilots negatively affected every pilot throughout the entire list.
He stressed to us that the arbitrator had the final say and neither he or the other pilot neutral had any "vote" in the outcome on the decision, it was determined solely by the arbitrator George Nicolau.
Later in the afternoon, every member of the MEC took the opportunity to articulate passionately to ALPA President John Prater our outrage at this unprecedented award and implored Captain Prater to exercise whatever means possible as the leader of ALPA to right this wrong.
We met again in closed session with our merger counsel to discuss what legal options are available to us and will continue to meet again on Monday.
Fraternally,
Bob Sauer
Chairman
Don Baier
Vice Chairman
Steve Boveri
Sec/Treasuer
Subject: Special MEC Meeting
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 22:53:06 -0400
May 6, 2007
Dear Fellow Pilots,
We remain in session this evening at 11pm at the Special MEC meeting in Herndon. The MEC met today in mostly closed session to discuss our options in response to the devastating seniority integration we received last week.
We started the meeting by questioning Captain Jim Brucia (the Continental pilot who was selected by our committee's the pilot neutral on the Merger Arbitration Panel) on the decision making process that was followed for constructing the final list. He is the pilot who wrote the dissenting opinion of the award. He objected to placing our furloughed pilots on the bottom of the merged list and that the placement of this group of our pilots negatively affected every pilot throughout the entire list.
He stressed to us that the arbitrator had the final say and neither he or the other pilot neutral had any "vote" in the outcome on the decision, it was determined solely by the arbitrator George Nicolau.
Later in the afternoon, every member of the MEC took the opportunity to articulate passionately to ALPA President John Prater our outrage at this unprecedented award and implored Captain Prater to exercise whatever means possible as the leader of ALPA to right this wrong.
We met again in closed session with our merger counsel to discuss what legal options are available to us and will continue to meet again on Monday.
Fraternally,
Bob Sauer
Chairman
Don Baier
Vice Chairman
Steve Boveri
Sec/Treasuer