Well, thanks junior. You just proved the point that you should have more experience before you post.

It DID happen. When Atlas; working hand in hand with the ALPA President, shut down their operations in support of Polar. While it took longer than anyone ever figured for management to get their act together and find a judge to issue the TRO; it forced the issue in a Federal Court over "no strike" language.

Let me say that again so you understand...WE SHUT DOWN ANOTHER CARRIER IN SUPPORT OF ONE ON STRIKE...WE WANTED THE INJUCTION...WE PLANNED IT THAT WAY.

Guess what genius? WE WON.

We won the right for any pilot group to refuse to cross another pilot group's (or for that matter any union's) LEGAL picket line. Which means, as the ruling was interpreted in the final hearing, that if a pilot group puts up a picket line at an airport...and the union declares the airport as "struck property," then we have the right to refuse to cross if we have concerns about safety or retribution.

It was the FIRST time in the history of ALPA that an airline operating under a seperate contract shut down in sympathy. And the position was UPHELD by the Federal District Court of New York.

And it was done by the Atlas pilots, Atlas MEC, the ALPA President and a very, very sharp ALPA lawyer.

BTW...looks like the IBT pulled a hat trick. In less than six weeks, they got a contract with no concessions after a strike at Amerijet, got a real nice one for ABX with more recalls and growth and landed a really nice one for AirTran mechanics that preserve jobs and curb outsourcing of jobs.

While ALPA raided a IBT carrier by promising to sign a concessionary, whipsaw contract that the IBT said they would not, because doing so would negatively impact pilots regardless of union affiliation.

(Oh yeah...those jobs and jets they would have gotten? ABX.)