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Going to NMB mediation means 3-5 years of purgatory. Totally unacceptable. That's why they are irrelevant.
If these profits continue and there's no agreement by March 2016 you will have a pilot group in open revolt.
The NMB will be the least of ALPA's worries.
The process to "jointly petition" is part of the mutually agreed, pilot ratified labor agreement.
As you know we are required to jointly petition, per the PWA.
I am not saying its "preferred" by either party, but it was what has been in the language for some time.