Alaska Airlines pilots vote 'overwhelmingly' to authorize strike if three-year-long contract talks continue to fail

Note: this doesn’t mean Alaska pilots are going on strike anytime soon. They have only been in mediation since Novemberish. They have at least a couple of years to go until the NMB might consider releasing them to a cooling-off period. However, it IS a very good move at this stage of the game in that it communicates to Alaska management that the Alaska pilot group is extremely unified around the idea of going on strike when the time comes.