Operation orange has been attacking the RLA for a long time now, and yet no one takes them seriously, which I find a bit sad. There's a lot of good thought there.
Night Hawk 6, you say what everyone knows already. The problem is, nothing can be done until the RLA is history.
Without the ability to withhold services, we have no power. Zero. Zip.
We can picket, cry, sulk, but so long as federal judges can sanction our unions for everything they have, so long as Presidential powers can force us to go back to work, nothing is going to change. Management holds all the cards, and it's a royal flush.
Until the RLA is history: This is why our only choice at AA, unless we want to fold and vote yes,
is to disband the APA as a legal entity and simply distribute all the assets to the members.
No union = 7,500 independent contractors. Nobody to throw in jail. Nobody to fine 20 million dollars.
Each pilot goes on strike individually. The water will be bloody. There will be firings right and left, draconian pronunciations, threats. But a federal judge cannot sanction 7,500 pilots each by name, individually.
There'll be scabs... but not enough to keep AA afloat.
If we vote NO on Dec 7, and AA's performance magically matches what happened in October, the company has solid evidence of an illegal job action, and we are back to square one, with the judge sanctioning the APA for millions and ordering us to operate "status quo."