There's some initial shock and awe value regarding informational picketing. But, once joe sixpack gets through the masses of pilots carrying pilots and finds out there's not actually a strike going on his blood pressure comes down to normal.

Informational picketing will likely happen. it's in the standard ALPA playbook. But, at this point I'd ask the obvious question...when? Clearly ALPA doesn't want to do it, otherwise they would have already done it. Likely because they know when we do informational picketiing and it doesn't produce results, pilots will ask...what's next? winding up the toy implies that we'll let it run and let it work. Once we let the jeanie out of the bottle we can't put it back in. So, ALPA looks like they are going slow on purpose. They don't want to unleash the beast.

time for some flav-a-flav clocks. It's genuis. Some passenger asks why you are wearing a large clock around you neck. Give them a copy of the united pilot talking points. Heck, I'd be lugging around a grand-father clock on wheels around the terminal as a conversation piece.

Our contracts to do not expire. They are amendable. So we continue under our current contract until we negotiate a new contract. This is all part of the fantastic Railway Labor Act (RLA). So hold on!!!

That's right baby. Status quo time. the clock is ticking. or is it?

You would be wrong.

our contract never expires. Instead, they are written with an amendable date so we continue to work under that contract until a new one is signed with a new amenable date. the railway labor act doesn’t allow us to have an expired contract or we could immediately strike like public unions do.