The fix was in even before our strike. AA sent a company email to every pilot during the strike basically saying "The President has called off your strike. Get back to work, dogs."
The time stamp on the bulk email was BEFORE the strike was called by the APA president.
The reason - "economic harm." UPS had a strike about the same time, which was allowed to proceed, even though the economic harm from it was 5X that of AA.
I'm not sure who was paid off. I'm still well and truly hacked over that whole thing.