I enjoyed your entire post but the above statement caught my eye. As JM negotiates a new TA, it is the above availability of green slips and rolling thunder that will prevent any current deal from getting done. There's too many pilots jumping at the massive opportunities of overtime. Raises and QOL mean less. Now, if you leverage this ability to simply fly your "Normal" schedule, you will have the companies attention. Until then, business as usual with no urgency from Ed[/QUOTE]

Yup, it's not a problem, until it's THEIR problem! As long as the wheels keep turning, they don't have a problem.

The issue with the 49'r lawsuit was, as our C2K contract negotiations dragged out 12 months past the amendable date, the MEC put out a series of "Know your contract" letters, each one explaining a part of our contract we should 'know' which would influence management to come to the table and get real, soon. Topics included such things as why we should fly, "Greenslip With Conflict" only, instead of regular GS, and other lesser known items available to pilots.

So the company said we were not flying enough over time...during November and December (the gall of those greedy pilots, wanting time off with the family around Thanksgiving and Christmas, instead of flying overtime!) and they had to cancel some flights, they filed a lawsuit, naming the entire 32 man MEC, plus 17 line pilots, (49 pilots total) for violating Status Quo in regards to not flying -enough- overtime, and for harassment of the pilots who were flying overtime.

When the contract was finally settled, the lawsuit was dropped as part of the settlement.