When companies have the football (recession, financial troubles, etc) they have no problem threatening worse and worse concessions including bankruptcy-induced contracts. And they won't hesitate pulling the bankruptcy/furlough trigger (even SWA now, as evidenced by December 2020).

When we have the football, we need to show the company that we won't hesitate to pull the trigger unless we get .every.single.thing. we're asking for.

I believe the company. It's time they believed us.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/11/21/business/railroad-unions-votes/index.html

We will be allowed to strike. We just have to use the levers at our disposal.