Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
Simply that they filed for it - not ALPA. Or in other words, they filed first. If they had any inkling the NMB would be quick to declare impasse and release into a cooling, would they really have filed for NMB negotiations? Wouldn’t it have made more sense to just continue direct negotiations with ALPA? It seems their move was done with zero fear and well thought out in advance.
Since THEY filed for it, why not drag it out as long as possible? That's not very hard at all, gotta be worth at least a year's delay. You'd have to be a special kind of stupid to send the mediator packing. Or have some other reason not to care.