ASA Strike?

[ex j-41]

4 years without a contract...Why can't ASA pilots strike?

It's the only way to get management to listen.

 

[79%N1]

Um.....in case you haven't been paying attention, pilots don't get to just decide to strike. They are governed by the Railway Labor Act, and Federal Mediators (NMB) decide when and if a union can strike. While we at ASA think you have a great idea there, our hands are tied by the process.

 

[SiuDude]

4 years without a contract...Why can't ASA pilots strike?

It's the only way to get management to listen.

I knew we forgot something! Thanks!

 

[ex j-41]

you are missing the question...I was asking why you cannot strike? What in the railway labor act is stopping you?

 

[79%N1]

Before a strike, the RLA requires a 30 day cooling off period, usually accompanied by super-mediated negotiations. Once the 30 days comes and goes, if no agreement has been reached, either party may take action against the other. The union may strike, the company can lock out their employees. The NMB refuses to release us into the 30 day cooling off perion, thus draaaaaaging out the negotiation process. They are seemingly so anti-labor friendly they see fit to only schedule us for 1 or 2 days of negotiations every two or three months! Hard to get an agreement done that way.

Hope you see the picture.

 

[ex j-41]

Well checking my e-mail this morning and seeing the ALPA newletter regarding your situation caught my attention. I assume that this was the intention. Sounds to me that the lawyers are winning this war. I just hope that we the labor in this country can vote in a pro labor goverment.

 

[SiuDude]

Before a strike, the RLA requires a 30 day cooling off period, usually accompanied by super-mediated negotiations. Once the 30 days comes and goes, if no agreement has been reached, either party may take action against the other. The union may strike, the company can lock out their employees. The NMB refuses to release us into the 30 day cooling off perion, thus draaaaaaging out the negotiation process. They are seemingly so anti-labor friendly they see fit to only schedule us for 1 or 2 days of negotiations every two or three months! Hard to get an agreement done that way.

Hope you see the picture.

Before a cooling off period begins, the NMB has to declare an impasse in negotiations. When they do that, they offer us (or proffer) arbitration. If either party declines arbitration, then the cooling off period begins.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

5 years....but who's counting.

 

[Toecutter]

As long as Bush is President, there will be no release. Remember that the President is the one who appoints the mediators. They are all anti labor, so the Union will never get the upper hand.

 

[BIGGOAT]

Ah yes, Democrats will solve all of our problems. When Hillary gets in office she will replace the NMB with her people and labor will rise to a new glorious position. Then they, Hiilary and company, will take it back thru higher taxes (ie. letting the recent tax cuts expire and instigating new ones).


Goat