Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Huh?
This is not true, by a long shot. It takes years of negotiation (if management wants it to), in a manner palatable to the NMB in order to get released. The NMB, not unions, is tolerant of management delay tactics,,, oh we didn't have time to look at we need a few more weeks, it's literally "the dog ate my homework".
Then you better hope the political winds are in your favor when the time comes.
Why did it take more than two years years to request mediation (from the NMB!) and start that clock?
Even the NMB can’t stonewall for years, hence you get them involved sooner.
The President himself won’t stop a strike—see Secretary Buttigieg’s personal involvement during the recently averted rail workers strike. The NMB process was complete. All legal methods to prevent a strike were exhausted, it was about to start before the DOT pressured management to cave.
The sooner we complete a strike vote the sooner we start that clock, the sooner we get a contract. It is under our control.
I just don’t understand how pilots are tolerant of this lackadaisical approach, particularly in this environment, with the current administration.