Right. Strikes and job actions only have teeth if the recipient organization can be forced into a captive relationship. If they have the authority to shift contracts around, or replace you with scabs, then obviously you have less leverage.

It's different for an IPA pilot than the RJ pilot because replacing us all would be legally and financially challenging for UPS. They don't have the same kind of "shell game" Scope authority to pit one group against another.

A National Seniority List would never work, as has been beaten to death in other threads. But perhaps a National Guild would work. A Guild is an organization of multiple independent unions. All unions in the Guild would then agree on minimum acceptable levels of compensation industry wide. There would be less advantage or gain then for UAL to switch out contracts for a diffent feeder service.