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Check Essential
Those are all good points. Except-
Southwest is soon going into, I believe, their 5th year of waiting to hit the first of those "checkpoints".
"Moving through mediation" at that pace is not acceptable. For all practical purposes, the "process leading up to a strike" no longer exists.
Southwest only applied for mediation in the past twelve months. Their pilots had never filed for mediation before. So don't think they've been in mediation for 5 years.