Originally Posted by Molon Labe

There is a very good chance that we will need to strike illegally at some point in our careers...Especially if McClown gets into power....Yes then we will need to get a change away from the RLA and in the ideal go for a more maritime like structure.....As far as illegal strike action goes we must remember that the laws in this country are written by lobbyists for the rich people and or corporations so that they stay rich and we will be prevented from having any legal actions that will succeed.....In other words anything that we can do that will work to advantage us (like an SOS) is illegal. That means that if we stay within the law (in this case the RLA) we are doomed to lose by default.... The past 30 years we have a classic situation of abiding by the law of the land and consistantly losing, sometimes a little and calling it a victory and sometimes severely and calling it the loss it was. The consistant thing was loss. Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, it is time we got over this risk averse posture of always abiding by the letter of the law. Besides there is little left to do to us that the industry hasn't already done, except maybe shave our heads.