Originally Posted by
Hedley
but as long as both parties are meeting frequently and negotiating in good faith, mediation won’t accomplish much.
It starts the clock.
You can't have a strike vote without being in mediation if you want to be taken seriously. (Their CEO laughed at them for it, the mediator did not) our CEO would laugh at us for having a strike vote without being in mediation. It's just legal procedure.
Ask the Delta guys why they got their contract. They followed the RLA, UALPA has not and we are that far behind because of it.
I hope the "New MEC" can pull a rabbit out of the hat but they should use the legal procedures available to them to force the issue.