Where we are now is we are a pilot group that has twice taken scope to binding arbitration, twice been told by the arbitrators that we deserved scope, and twice been told that they couldn't create an item from scratch. Other airlines have had to strike to get scope protection. Isn't that what American went on strike for in the late '90's? You remember, the strike that lasted 5 minutes before Clinton declared a PEB?
Yes, we had a no-strike clause for decades, but that went away in 2005 with the Kasher arbitration. He was the first to deny us scope while admitting we deserved it, the JCBA arbitration was the second. The company has told us to our faces that scope is "off the table". Right now we have a unified group, willing and able to ask the federal mediator to declare an impasse and release us to legal self help after a 30 day cooling off period. We tried to do this through arbitration and keep metal moving. There is no other option for us at the moment than for the mediator to declare an impasse and let the processes spelled out in the Railway Labor Act come to pass. For you to point to the past will only serve for this unified pilot group to lose direction.