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All American Eagle Pilots
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Tomorrow, Tuesday January 12, 2010 the Letter 3 Coalition organizers will meet with the attorneys who will represent the American Eagle Flow-Through Pilots in their lawsuit against alpa for its failure to enforce the provisions of Letter 3.
On May 28, 2007 Arbitrator LaRocco ruled that TWA LLC pilots were new hire pilots when they attended class at AA.
On June 6, 2007 TWA LLC pilots began to attend new hire classes at AA.
Letter 3 requires that "at least one (1) out of every two (2) a new hire positions per new hire class" at AA shall be offered to Eagle Flow-Through pilots.
alpa never demanded that the contractual provisions of Letter 3 be adhered to by management. Arbitrator LaRocco's ruling was not ambiguous or difficult to interpret so why did ALPA not demand that Letter 3.III.A be enforced?
On October 18, 2009 Arbitrator Nicolau ruled that American Eagle pilots who hold American Airline seniority numbers were entitled to attend AA training classes beginning in June 2007.
Two arbitrators, LaRocco and Nicolau, both ruled in effect that American Eagle Flow-Through pilots should have attended the June 6, 2007 new hire class at AA.
No American Eagle Flow-Through Pilot attended the AA new hire class or any subsequent new hire classes.
There can only be one reason; alpa has agreed to delay the Flow-Through pilots from attending AA new hire classes.
From alpa lawyer Wayne Klocke advising Arbitrator LaRocco in 2006 that alpa was not requiring the transfer of Flow-Through pilots to AA, through the failed negotiations of 2007 (see Back Page of this website) where alpa agreed to delay the transfer of Flow Through pilots to AA indefinitely, to the current orchestrated delay where alpa has joined with the APA and AA management and requested the "assistance of the arbitrator' instead of just asking Arbitrator Nicolau for his remedy on his ruling of October 18, 2009 wherein he stated that American Eagle Flow-Through pilots should have attended AA new hire classes on June 6, 2007.
The Letter 3 Coalition cannot allow alpa, AA management and the APA to continue to ignore the contractual rights of the Flow-Through pilots incorporated in Letter 3, as well as arbitrators rulings upholding those contractual rights.
Every American Eagle pilot has been negatively affected by the failure of alpa.
Furloughs/Displacements/Downgrades/Forced Domicile Transfer are all a result of the illegal withholding of the Flow-Through pilots.
Every Flow-Through pilot who leaves the American Eagle property improves the bidding seniority of every pilot junior to the Flow-Through pilot.
The orchestrated delay in transferring the Flow-Through Pilots to AA cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely.
The Letter 3 Coalition has no option other than to sue the Air Line Pilots Association.
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Posted on Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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