Originally Posted by
Baja
Busboy,
You get the gold ring! Recall that Clinton wouldn't let the AA pilots strike BUT he did allow Northwest to strike. Politics can make a difficult trail to follow at times. Just have to dig - which you did.
Well he did NOT allow AMFA (the NW mechanics union) to strike the first time in 2001 pre 9/11. But did allow them to strike in 2005 because NW had spent the better part of two years and several million dollars to train scabs and told Bush basically to stay out of it since they were hell bent on busting the union. But did allow the NW pilots to strike in 98.