What the MEM guys don't seem to understand is that by drafting and volunteering, they are almost guaranteeing we will have to take this to a strike. If everyone would decide on their own to stop working extra, the company would have to negotiate with us because they rely upon that extra work. But with all the fools drafting and volunteering, the company is getting along okay and so they have no economic motivation to negotiate in any quality way. Consequently, we'll continue down this dead end road and end up "forced" to strike. I hope not, but I don't see how it will go any other way.

And I don't want to hear one more fool suggest that we have to continue draft and volunteer because to stop would violate the RLA. That's absolutely wrong, it's not at all the situation AA was in, and quit using that as an excuse to continue your own draft and volunteer actions!