Originally Posted by
Purple Drank
Just out of curiosity, do you think we have any leverage anywhere?
Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Honestly not a lot. ...
The NMB has made it crystal clear how they view contracts and the term reasonableness they like to use. Lots of airlines have tried to buck that process in the last 10 years. The success rate stand at zero.
We have to stop thinking like this is the 1970s.
Follow me here --
Fact: The Delta pilots are
NEVER going to be released by the NMB.
There are no circumstances where that will ever happen. Industry consolidation has made that a certainty. We are too big and too important to the national economy. We are a public utility. There will not be a Delta pilot strike. Ever.
Therefore: The NMB is irrelevant. What they think is reasonable has no bearing on our negotiations. ALPA only uses them as an excuse. Those days have to end. We have to start using the leverage we have outside of the RLA process. There are plenty of legal things we can do.