Originally Posted by
Mytime2025
MEC is meeting this week and will decide steps going forward and they have power to cancel the TA. Lets just hope they understand what this pilot group wants. Pay/retirement and work rules that enhance QOL. It's not that complicated. They need to stop the mindset of in order to get something we need to give up something. How about this mindset, te the company negotiators we either get pay that surpasses inflation and a company funded retirement or we declare an impass and we will see you on the picket line. That's the message the NC needs to send. ALPA start acting like a union and not a boys club.
That’s not how it works.
Under the RLA, neither side has the power to declare an impasse. Only the NMB can declare an impasse. And the NMB will only declare an impasse if you are in mediation (United pilots currently aren’t) and, among other things, have spent a substantial amount of time (years) in mediation. The United pilot group is years away from any form of legal strike. You can, however, conduct informational picketing at any time like the Delta pilots did last week and SWAPA pilots did a couple of weeks ago.