Originally Posted by
Hotel Kilo
Pay attention to how DALPA responds to the latest shot across our bow from BP (really from JL, PB, and RG et al.) Another strongly worded letter? Or will we actually see some action from the MEC. The anticipation is riveting...
Of course they will. Because that's really all the RLA allows them to do. Strongly worded letters, public shaming in the media, "informational picketing" (whoa management really shakes in their sneakers on that one).
Maybe they'll at least throw us a bone and tell us we can take our hats off again this winter. At least that would be something, and it probably aggravates management the worst of all the paltry options. But the best option would be a a major dispute lawsuit over management's blatant thumbing their noses at us and saying they won't keep their deals (no longer a rule of the road).
PB's comment that nothing is illegal until an arbitrator decides it is should go down as the next biggest F-up they've made after Ed's comments on CNBC that we can't strike. The ramifications should be commensurate. As the kids say, "he said the quiet part out loud".