Ok sailing, you stated this a couple weeks ago and I'll admit I have spent more than a few hours researching what you are trying to get at by continually stating that they can do what they want because we are past our amendable date. I will admit I am not a lawyer, especially a labor lawyer, and you very well may be one but I have found nothing that supports your claim that management has some special power because we are past our amendable date. Matter of fact we have an amendable date, instead of an expiration date, on our contract to ensure continued service because we fall under the RLA as you well know.

So what I did find is that the government has released an airline management one time to self help BEFORE exhausting all the necessary steps in the RLA for contract negotiations only because the union of the airline had lost control of it's members and the self help was only to the extent to keep the airline running not a carte blanche to destroy the contract. So since none of that is happening here that puts us back into the normal routine of mediation, arbitration, cooling off period and eventually a PEB and probably some sort of executive order making both sides continue to work because of the circumstances going on int the world.

So maybe you can enlighten the rest of us the special power you are reading about in the RLA or law that will allow management to do what you say they can do because I can't find it. Not saying it's not there just saying I haven't been able to find any support for what you are saying.