Originally Posted by
HercDriver130
FWIW.... after all the years you have been in negotiations.... if the pilots vote this down... my personal belief is that the union should go to the NMB and have things declared an enpass.... with a 30 day cooling off period ... followed by a strike if no progress is made. A strike is the ONLY thing at this point that will get you something even close to what you should be looking to get. Five years is tooo long...if they were willing to pay more without the possibility of a strike they would have. Push for "self help" if this TA fails... and if it passes... you have no one to point the finger at but yourselves... good luck.
A strike will not happen, it is killer for both sides, especially in this economic climate. I don't know if the ASA was rewritten, but back under NWA they had the "comair clause". If 9E struck and they were unable to launch X amount of flights they had to surrender X% of airframes, each successive period that did not meet the minimum amount of flights the more airframes they lost. Basically after 21 days 9E would almost cease to exist.
Therefore, if the union takes a protracted strike position, they lose airframes and jobs, if the company allows the strike to be protracted they lose the airframes business. Since DAL owns NWA, those -200 airframes are DAL and everyone knows there are enough DCI carriers that would kill to get more airframes at the expense of another DCI competitor.
I don't see a strike, too much to lose for both sides, especially with DCI decreasing schedules. NO one would win.