Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You might as well be done now. Every contract involves some give and take. If we walked in and said zero concessions and here is a list of our demands you would work under this contract for the rest of your career. The NMB would not even bother to ice us like American. They would refuse us even entering the mediation process.
One other minor point.
Either party can request mediation at ANY time. The other party CANNOT refuse.