My reference was to the last UAL/CAL strikes, but as you alluded, we should look at all the labor conflicts that are governed by RLA.

If you truly believe that management has this much control of the government and that our only self help tool now is the strike, then we may as well give up. Forget about collective bargaining, take whatever the bosses want to give the peasants. Embrace John McCains arbitration idea.

I just don't agree, at some point politic meets the law. The RLA was designed to discourage strikes, not prohibit them.