Quoted from Bohicagain
"No matter how much you follow the FOM to the letter it is not going to help get a contract quicker. Management will drag their feet as long as possible. The only way I see 9E getting a contract real soon is if they accept the crap that the company has been offering."

I think this line of thinking is prevelent at 9E and is really part of the problem.
Action is what is required. The strike vote was a show of unity, but is still just talk.

As was mentioned the Union cannot organize, encourage, or be seen as encouraging anything other than status quo. So this has to be a grass roots effort.

As a Captain I do my part, and hopefully this board and our own board can spread the word.

Basically if we can't get enough people to slow things down,it will be clear to me that this pilot group is just not ****ed off enough, and is all talk and no action. I truly hope that will not be the case.