Originally Posted by
theUpsideDown
Well I agree the president can delay a strike, if only youd youd said that.
You can double check me,
https://nmb.gov/NMB_Application/inde...rgency-boards/ , but once again president cant stop the strike. Your own peb site info you lifted that from tells you at the conclusion of the delay you can still strike.
The president isnt the God of all unions and labor agreements. He could try to renationalise the airlines, good luck getting congress to agree. We arent france, but unions do have SOME fair power of leverage in this country.
Certainly a labor friendly president might appoint someone to the NMB that allows for a little more shoving the company around, but only to an extent. The law is the law. Follow it, respect the process, keep the BS to a minimum and youll get released. Im not pretending its a perfectly manufactured process, but it is what we have.
When GB stated there would be no strikes I suspect he was very confident that if the PEB recommended a imposed contract congress would agree. Since the president picks the PEB members that outcome is preordained.
I have zero doubt DT would attempt to impose a contract if we reached that point. The only question is what is the mechanism to do so. Vote by the Senate? Vote by the House? It might just be a vote of a Committee. I don’t know the answer but the details could be important.