"The President may create a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) to investigate and report on a dispute over the terms of a Collective Bargaining Agreement. Under the Railway Labor Act, the President may exercise his discretion to create an emergency board when the labor dispute threatens “substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service.” Creation of a PEB delays a strike, lockout or other form of self-help, generally for 60 days. The PEB has 30 days to issue its report. Generally, PEBs provide recommendations for settlement of the dispute. After the PEB reports to the President, the parties to the dispute have another 30-day cooling off period to consider the recommendations of the PEB and to reach an agreement. If either party rejects the PEB recommendations, the parties may engage in Self-Help at the end of this last 30-day Cooling-Off Period, including strikes, lockouts and unilateral changes in terms and conditions of employment. Finally, Congress may also intervene and mandate an Agreement legislatively, ordering the parties to adopt the findings of the PEB."

Strike votes really don’t mean much. It’s more of a let’s prove how mad we are. But that’s about it.

well, it proves 99% of them are mad

It gives the negotiators ammunition that the members are behind them. 96 percent participation is an excellent show of support. Hope it moves the needle for them.

Please, my QOL would probably go up.

LMFAO.

I’m pretty sure you’re not getting arrested if you don’t answer the phone…it’s just an IA.

My post is a response to what would happen if pilots went on strike even after they were ordered back to work by the govt. Nothing to do with an IA.

Ill bet Alaska gets released. This all seems really similar to the Spirit strike.

Disagree. News agencies love this stuff and dramatize it effectively which in turn affects bookings. The avg joe public traveler does not know the intricacies of the RLA or a PEB. They hear strike and book away from an airline not wanting to gamble the annual family vacation

i know.

just outta curiosity…what’s the charge? Failure to work for a publicly traded company?

…and at what point am I allowed to quit?