Opinion ID: 785099
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: US Airways Equipment and Facilities Clause Argument

Text: 48 US Airways also argues that the district court failed to acknowledge the equipment and facilities clause of Article 2(B), which states that [i]n the event that a situation should develop whereby the equipment and facility limitations are not available or sufficient to perform such work, the Company will confer with the Union in an effort to reach an understanding with respect to how the problem is to be resolved. JA 170. US Airways argues that this clause creates at least an implied right to subcontract where the Company does not have adequate equipment or facilities. US Airways further argues that under the Dunsford Award, this clause applies whenever work is covered by the agreement ( e.g. HMV work), and not where the work is subject to an express exception under the Second Clarification, such as Section (G). As such, it concludes that even if the second sentence of Section (G) applied only to work customarily contracted out, the equipment and facilities clause of Article 2(B) creates an independent basis for the Company's right to subcontract S-Checks. Appellant's br. at 31. 49 Based on these arguments, we hold that U.S. Airways has met its relatively light burden, see Conrail, 491 U.S. at 307, 109 S.Ct. at 2482 (citation omitted), of asserting rights under the CBA that are neither frivolous nor obviously insubstantial. But we do not go further and state a view as to whether we ultimately agree with U.S. Airways or the IAM as it is not our responsibility to make such a determination. Rather, we leave the merits of the parties arguments to the System Board, and merely will lift the preliminary injunction because there is no requirement that the status quo be maintained in this minor dispute.