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Article: Delta pilots union open to arbitration in merger
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- April 22, 2008
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ATLANTA -- The head of Delta's pilots union suggested Monday that
he is open to arbitration with Northwest pilots over how to merge
their seniority lists. The two sides failed to reach a pact before
their airlines agreed to combine last week.
In a letter to fellow pilots Monday, Lee Moak, the chairman of
the executive committee at Delta's pilots union, said union leaders
are committed to the idea that seniority integration should be
accomplished after negotiation of a single joint contract and, if
necessary, "expedited arbitration to be completed before closing of
a corporate transaction."
The two carriers tried and failed to get a pilot seniority
integration deal in advance of their ...