Originally Posted by
guppie
What a bunch of horse sheet. Are you forgetting it was 'Slick Willy' who watched the AAL flight attendants go out on strike in '93 just before Thanksgiving? He didn't stop that. And what about the Northwest pilot's strike? They shut down their airline for 15 days in '98. Slick didn't stop that either. And the Northwest pilot strike was 18 months AFTER the AAL pilot strike. So much for the big four 'losing the ability to strike.' Lol. Maybe ol' slick did exactly what APA leadership wanted him to do. In any case, the APA pilots became the highest paid pilots in the industry a few months after that stopped strike. Heck, we all got PAID during Slick's Santa Claus for labor administration. Record breaking contracts as I recall. Kinda like during Obama's administration.
Guppie, agree with some of your points but, how do you credit Obama and his administration for contract gains? Name what airlines struck during his administration. The gains made are directly correlated to a pilots ability to say "no" to a insuficiant offer. Plus the gains made in the past 8 years doesn't even come close to what has been lost in the past 25 years. Obama policies demolished union labor during his 8 years in office.