“While this legislation is no doubt
well-intentioned, APA does not favor legislative branch involvement
in any aspect of labor negotiations... We believe this
legislation could have adverse, unintended consequences for the
very same unionized workers that Congress was trying to
help.”
Source: APA President Captain Lloyd Hill,
speaking about The Allied Pilots Association's concern over
legislation that provides for binding arbitration to determine the
make-up of combined seniority lists when air carriers merge.
Missouri Senators Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Kit Bond (R-MO) led
efforts to attach the legislation to an omnibus appropriations bill
that the Senate subsequently approved.
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