Originally Posted by
guppie
Probably the most ignorant statement I've seen on these boards. As if the POTUS doesn't appoint members to the National Mediation Board? The organization that facilitates our contract negotiations and labor/management disputes. It would be like me saying there is 0 correlation with who is in the White House and our Supreme Court nominees. None. LOL.
The incoming President doesn’t automatically wipe out the NMB members and install new ones. The fact that Obama was president during the last contract, also moot, because the NMB members were from previous appointments. Trump just named one, so right now there are 2 Rs and 1 D on the NMB.
So the next contract will settle this. Its an R President, and 2 of the 3 NMB members are R appointees, so if we get a concessionary contract, you win. And if we get a better contract, then I guess there will be some big excuse.