Once again, we've heard this before. When I was hired at Pinnacle, I was told by both the company and the union "progress is being made, and we are close." Fast forward several years, and the TA presented to the pilot group was crap, yet it was told "this is the best we can get." We voted it down. Fast forward another year, and it's like groundhog day "We're close and making progress." Unless sections are closed, "progress" is about like running 3/4 of a marathon and sitting down. Sure, you're closer than when you started, but you're not there yet. Are we any closer now than we were on Wednesday? Nope. All of our momentum was on Wednesday, and I'm not all that impressed with the sections closed. All the BIG sections still remain open. Get Section 25 closed (which is where the company like to screw people over the most), and then I'll start to get excited. If picketing was canceled just because airlines were "making progress," there would never be any picketing events.

I'm with you there, but I feel like a broken record whenever I try to explain the "whys" of the picketing events. It's not to derail the JCBA, it's to put pressure on management to actually follow through, something they historically have been VERY poor at. We probably should have had picketing events all through the summer, but I guess we were "close and making progress" the whole time. After all, the same sections left in the JCBA are the same ones we've been trying to close since the beginning of 2010.