Sentence examples for seniority lists from inspiring English sources

The merger of US Airways and America West Airlines, completed in 2005, has been rocky in part because US Airways pilots were vastly senior to America West pilots, and merging seniority lists has led to litigation and prevented the company from operating as a single airline.

Layoffs typically eliminate the lowest-paid workers at the bottom of seniority lists; incentives to retire help remove higher-paid senior workers.

An age mismatch raises the stakes in any melding of seniority lists, with the potential for junior pilots to leapfrog more senior ones and take away more lucrative and attractive assignments.

The possibility of combining seniority lists with US Airways is another concern of United pilots.

And any potential follow-on merger, like one between United Airlines and Continental Airlines, would involve combining seniority lists.

Combining seniority lists is seldom a straightforward question of just figuring out who was hired first by which airline.

It did not mention the seniority list battle.

Pilots from the two airlines have yet to agree to a common seniority list.

He is about 100th on the N.Y.P.D. seniority list out of roughly 36,000 men and women.

When a miner gets laid off, his name goes on a seniority list.

The US Airways pilots have much more seniority and wanted a seniority list that took that into account.