Originally Posted by Lewbronski

Not sure what you mean when you say, “Leverage is best used in what the company is doing.” You seem to me to be suggesting that dissatisfaction with management produces leverage.

If that’s what you’re saying, I don’t look at it that way. Dissatisfaction with management can be harnessed to harden a labor group’s resolve to leverage the credible threat of a legal strike. But I don’t think dissatisfaction with management by itself is really a form of leverage.

We’re all still showing up for work even though many of us are very dissatisfied with management and their antics (millions upon millions in bonuses splashed around the C-suite while slashing PS?).

When these guys are staring down the barrel of a legal strike and all the loss of revenue that entails, then they will care. A SAV is a big step toward credibly posing that threat but there will still be a ton of resolve this pilot group will need to demonstrate until we maximize our leverage as we enter into a cooling off period and a PEB.

Until then, nothing much has fazed them. Yes, let’s allow our disappointment and dissatisfaction with management fuel our walk toward maximizing our leverage via the RLA. But I still want to get paid and I still want better work rules and benefits regardless of how nice management is and regardless of how much they say they love me.