BoilerUP

NMB has no obligation to release into self-help, either...especially if they don't feel the "reasonability" box has been checked.

BcULstDaBlodyWr

This is factually incorrect and has been proven in court.

BoilerUP

In what case?

rickair7777

News to me. Not saying it ain't so, but if there's precedent the bar must be pretty high or more people would get released.

I don't think NMB has to release you if they think the company is bargaining in good faith. Guess you could litigate their interpretation of good faith.

Aero1900

Leaving the negotiations issues aside for a moment, I think there is an interesting thing going on here I didn't see coming.

The supply and damand for Pilots between the regionals and majors is an odd thing. The regionals have mostly all now secured massively better contracts. Hitting $200/ hour is a huge accomplishment for them. But at the big airlines there's no shortage of applicants and thus no pressure on management to up the pay. At least not much or not yet.

Frontier has increased first year pay twice and started paying for hotels during new hire training. That has seemed to help them fill classes, which they are. Now that they are hitting their hiring targets, the pressure is off of management... for now.

It's an odd situation to see the regionls make significant progress in closing the pay gap, and maybe a much more difficult road ahead for the big airlines?

Taking it another step down the road, airlines like Allegiant, Frontier, Spirit, Avelo and Breeze will all see continued attrition to the big 3. That attrition will be the only real reason for those management teams to roll over and offer up pay raises. Could we see the LCCs catch up to the big 3? The big 3 won't have the attrition problem every other airline will have. Where's the motivation for United and Delta to give a big pay raise? Frontier on the other hand is trying to triple in size and is going to need a lot of pilots to do it.

Interested to see what happens, but the dynamics of the industry have changed a lot since the last round.

tnkrdrvr

Reality is that most pilot groups at top tier airlines have not seen an actual increase in negotiation leverage. There is nowhere for their pilots to go other than other top tier airlines that happen to have a better domicile for the individual pilot. The RLA is strangling any attempts at self help. Management has every incentive to drag out negotiations and none to sign a deal. This is a crappy state of affairs with the only way out being to play the RLA game smarter than management with the goal of being ultimately released for self help (strike). Hopefully, at least one group succeeds.

Ed Force One

What does the R in RLA stand for again?

ALPA should be devoting their resources to crafting a new set of rules to bargain under. It doesn't have to be Earth shattering (because it won't be) but it should at least bring our own profession's interests, business models, and general considerations that fit with modern times into consideration.

Aero1900

Definitely true. When the RLA was implemented, rail was absolutely critical to the economy. The Gov't Definitely didn't want to risk strikes jacking up commerce

In fact, just last month the Biden administration got involved to prevent a large rail strike. It's too important to the economy

Jdub2

they did not prevent the strike

Aero1900

Ok. Whatever.

The administration got deeply involved to try and prevent the strike. The point being that the govt doesn't want strikes because it's bad for the economy

https://apnews.com/article/biden-economy-strikes-congress-94089be6a4f469444da99fec9dde1b3e