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Old 11-23-2014 | 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Route66
Let me ask you a few questions since we seem to be on some form of reasonable discussion.

If the PAB doesn't give the West pilots a seat at the table are you (personally) and the whole West contingent willing to call it finished and all 100% of you will walk lock step with the APA in 2019 if they call for a strike?

This question can not be answered by any one individual because there is as you know an entity that fights for the implementation of that arbitrated list. Now if you ask will there continue to be a fight absent a legal means to justify it? I doubt it.

If the PAB DOES give the West participant status but the West gets LOS in the SLI arbitration will you (personally) and the whole West contingent walk in lock step with the APA in 2019 if they call for a strike?

I tend to think that if a strike is called for at that time, there will be no pilots anywhere on the property that will entertain crossing that picket line.

I know what you say what you will or will not do but I believe I know the answer and after 10 years of this stuff I'm prepared with the knowledge that you won't have the APA's back.

You have a belief issue. I have a trust issue. And therein lies the crux of the whole union matter at least for me.
Personally I don't believe that strike will be necessary and that by that time so much will have passed. Now will there still be Ill feelings? I would think that there would be. One need look no further than the TWA pilots to see that even after this much time many are still very angry with APA. There is a tremendous difference between being angry and crossing a picket line. One has lasting emotional effects and the other has lasting career effects...

WD at AWA
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