January 4, 2011 - Late last week, arbitrator Richard Bloch notified the CAL MEC that he had ruled in favor of ALPA in its expedited scope arbitration held in early December. The arbitration resulted from ALPA’s group grievance addressing management’s post-merger decision to outsource flying using the CO designator code on 70-seat jets from Continental hubs. The Association saw this as a violation of the Continental collective bargaining agreement (CBA) and an attempt by management to leverage its position in negotiations in favor of outsourcing.