Originally Posted by Excargodog

The only problem is the two slanted parallel lines on the lower (time) axis showing the scale is discontinuous between where we are now and release to self help, meaning that actual release might well be far far away and the time scale for such release not truly represented by the graph as depicted. One can represent it graphically like this which clearly helps explain the sequence, but any honest representation - which this is - must acknowledge that the RLA is an onerous process designed to preserve the right to strike in theory while making it intentionally as difficult and lengthy a process as possible to actually exercise that “right.”

That’s no criticism of the OP, merely an acknowledgement of the intent of the lawmakers who crafted the RLA and their skill in accomplishing that intent.