Published 29 Jun, 2016
By agreement between the Joint Association and American Airlines, a neutral, professional arbitrator has been appointed this week to assist the parties in the seniority integration process resulting from the merger of American and US Airways.
“According to federal law, known as the McCaskill-Bond Amendment, in airline mergers the integration of seniority must be fair and equitable,” writes arbitrator Joshua M. Javits in a letter to all Mechanic and Related, Stores, and Fleet Service members. “The law further provides that when the employees of a craft and class at the two merging carriers have the same representative, in this case the TWU/IAM Associations, the merger policy of the representative shall be applied. Here, the parties have already established the basic principles to guide this seniority integration,” he continued.
Jarvis goes on to outline the process and calls for input from members.