Originally Posted by
waterskisabersw
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.
The NMB cannot stop us from striking. The President cannot stop us from striking. Congress, especially until January 2025, is extremely unlikely to stop us from striking (and even if, by some improbable alignment of the stars, they ultimately intervene in our dispute, SWA would still lose hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue during the 30-day cooling off period and possible 60-day PEB that would precede us striking as passengers booked away from SWA on other airlines). That’s real leverage.
What WILL stop us from wielding the leverage of a strike, though, is us and our own failure to grasp hold of the opportunity that is right in front of our faces. Our own lack of courage, will, and determination is the only obstacle standing in the way of us achieving a “generational” industry-leading contract. And it is a much more significant obstacle than the company, the NMB, the President, or Congress.