Originally Posted by
CRJdriver2017
I’ll admit I haven’t been through negotiations before. What happens if the pilot group keeps voting down? Can someone step in and make them accept? Sort of like what happened with Biden and the railroad workers?
Sort of, although in this environment that would quickly leave you with only the older and very senior pilots shackled by the golden handcuffs of seniority, and I’m not sure the NMB would actually let it go than far. Neither Congress nor the President actually wants to force someone into bankruptcy. Eventually unions do get released to strike, and with all the fixed overhead requirements of an airline the cost to management is devastating. Strikes tend to last only hours, sometimes minutes. But it’s a long process.