This is wrong. Why do people continue to promote this?

We have substantial, possibly once-in-a-career leverage right now. This may very well be the one time you have to correct many cycles of contract shortcomings.

You’d be helping your fellow pilots by not putting out this nonsense.

Here’s why.

Many SWAPA members, including our former SWAPA president and other SWAPA leadership figures, have repeatedly cited the claimed ability of the President to extend the length of a PEB and/or to establish endless subsequent PEB's as a primary reason why they refuse to attempt to leverage the RLA. "It is pointless," they ignorantly affirm, "The President will just shut us down." Therefore, we must use novel, unproven, and tenuous forms of leverage like "The Platform," and "The Pilot Shortage" as our primary means of applying pressure to the company. How many industry-leading contracts have those forms of leverage delivered?

For the bazillionth time, THE PRESIDENT CANNOT EXTEND A PEB. THE PRESIDENT CAN ONLY DELAY A STRIKE BY 60 DAYS BY ESTABLISHING ONE, AND ONLY ONE, PEB. Again, here is the DOJ legal opinion, issued by a Deputy Assistant Attorney General to President Bush in 1990 on the question of whether or not the president can extend a PEB or set up a subsequent PEB. Despite what our former SWAPA president claims, despite what any BOD rep with a law degree claims, despite what any union attorney may claim, in the airline industry, the President CANNOT extend a PEB nor establish a second or third or fourth PEB.