Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
Your management has 0 incentive to bargain. It’s a lose/lose proposition for them in the current environment. They know that even if they beat the legacy pay rates by 10-15% it still wouldn’t mean they are all of a sudden able to attract a wave of new hires. Hard to argue with 1-2 year upgrades and new hires going to 777 and 787.
It will take the industry slowing down for some reason for you to gain any real leverage. And the U.S. airline industry has been capacity constrained since Covid. So fat chance on getting released anytime soon. Good luck. I foresee a long fight.
Can you go into more detail as to what you mean by "anytime soon"? Can you point to something specifically like a particular section of the RLA or a particular RLA case which makes you feel the way you do? I might agree with you if you mean weeks or months. But at some point, and guidance does exist on at what point this occurs, the NMB does not have carte blanche to simply keep a dispute in mediation forever.