Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
PG;
Not even sure the RLA is the defacto issue. IMO, it starts with the NMB and there total lack of desire from external forces to declare an impasse. I mean, come on. Five years?
That needs to be restructured to a starting clock as soon as mediation is started. 12-no more than 18 months. After that self help. We need to take the politicians out of it. Put absolutes in it.
Make the NMB has drop dead gates. They can and have failed at their job too.
If these new procedures do not work, the it is time to rebuild a new RLA.
I agree with you. The NMB has become an extension of management to delay, delay, delay. The reason I say the RLA is the primary problem is because under that system, contracts never expire, they only become "amendable". Move us out from under the RLA and put us under the NLRB, and you instantly create a definitive timeline we can all work with. I just don't see that ever happening because management sure doesn't want it, nor does the traveling public. And it is the traveling public that elects Congressmen, ergo, they don't want it either.