Originally Posted by
captnate702
please explain this to me??? I would love to hear about how we have more leverage today than we did in 2023 during the greatest hiring spree in our careers? Or the leverage we had when there were when two democrats (one of them was an IBT attorney) on the NMB who could release us?
I didn’t say we have more leverage now than we did in ‘23 but we have more leverage now than we have since then. You could argue that we have more leverage now though because the company seemed fine with hiring CFIs and visas to replace leaving pilots. And yeah, I think we have more leverage now despite the fact we probably aren’t getting released anytime soon. They need government and shareholder approval to get this deal done. They want to show DOJ/DOT and financers that there are no labor troubles. If we’re quiet then all will assume that labor negotiations are going smooth. If we’re loud they’ll be more inclined to finish the deal. That’s called leverage.