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Old 08-10-2015, 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted by MEMA300 View Post
A strike vote does not mean that you will actually withhold all services. It allows you to define certain work as struck work, like working on your off days for draft. At least that is how I understood it when explained to me years back.

Legally we are allowed no variance from normal until a strike is ordered after a 30 day cooling off period.
A strike vote can be taken at any time. We don't need approval from anyone for ALPA to take the vote. The results of such a vote will be a closely held secret and not released to the public until such time we need some leverage. That's assuming of course that the vote is strongly in favor of striking. It could turn out 50/50 and the union would never release those results to the public because our pilots won't support a strike. Or it could be 98/2 in favor of striking. It's all in the numbers.
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