Originally Posted by
9mikemike
Important not to put any hopes on…”they will have to pay us or they wont be able to be successful”…..After almost 24 years of hearing that mantra and having be 100% meaningless it will take an ugly, bloody fight to get where the group claims to want to go….We have only mustered on the far horizon and shaken our flag and played our pipes and drums…..We have yet to even have a skirmish. Alaska leadership lives and dies on us “making” them pay us..Long march and lots of fighting before we get there
I'm sure you've seen a lot in the last 24 years, but you really don't think its different now?
Have we ever been this unified, and willing to demonstrate that unity with perhaps the strongest picketing turnout of any airline union, not to mention the 99 percent YES Strike Authorization with a 97 percent eligibility voting?
Couple that with the unprecedented attrition, and soon to be unprecedented pilot shortage, are you really convinced they'll proceed with business as usual?
Yes, I know that it seems like AS always seem to get one over on the pilots, but unless they are the airline equivalent of Houdini, I'm optimistic that they wont be able to escape the confluence of circumstances that'll require them to agree to a competitive contract.