Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
Comair's 2001 strike was on GWB's watch...
Do the research, and you'll see GWB was too busy being brought up to speed on being president to deal with a Comair strike. He'd only been in office two months.
From CNN 3/26/01:
The White House said Sunday there was little chance Bush would intercede in the dispute. Unless mediators decide that a strike by Comair would cause significant harm to a region of the country, Bush cannot act to head off a strike.
"Unless and until the National Mediation Board makes such a determination, the president's hands are tied," White House press secretary
Ari Fleischer said. And a senior administration official told CNN the board appears unlikely to do that.
Bush did set up a presidential emergency board in the dispute between mechanics and management at Northwest Airlines, preventing a strike from taking place, but the National Mediation Board had determined a strike by the mechanics would cause significant harm to the country.
If the NMB had determined that the Comair strike would cause "significant harm" economically to a region, then LIKELY a PEB would have been set up. Unless they state that, a PEB isn't even an option.
Hinting that Bush would let 9E (or anyone else) strike is about as flawed as assuming Obama will automatically let it happen.