Originally Posted by
R57 relay
A strike vote when we haven't even asked for arbitration. Yeah, that'll have Isom quaking in his boots.
Were Delta pilots in mediation when they took their strike vote?
Originally Posted by
fishforfun
For a couple years.
Just to put a little more granularity on this, Un-mediated talks opened in April 2019. After very little/sloooow progress, DL & DALPA jointly filed for
Mediation in Jan 2020. 2 months later, Covid shut down everything, so we didn’t
really get started with the NMB until mid-Jan 2022, and had a TA at the end of Nov 2022. So about 10 months of actual Mediated talks, meeting every other week (which is fairly aggressive for the NMB).