ASA Strike?

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Why don't you ask the American pilots how they did with their strike under Clinton? And while you're at it, ask them how they liked the judgement passed against them by a Clinton appointed judge for their work slowdown and sickout. Oh yeah, those Democrats will save us all. uke:

Just FYI. The president can only block your strike for 60 days. Once he or she opens that can of worms NO ONE can close it. That is actually to be expected now days but it is not a permanent block of a work stoppage. It is not necessarily a bad thing.

My opinion on this. The RLA was never intended to be a permanent revocation of our constitutional rights. It has recently been used to do so. It will only change if there is a national work stoppage of all of the unionized workers whom are governed by it. Not just airlines but everyone who is being abused by the act. Until we have a national chair that has rallying all of us (Not just ALPA) to stop working like a week or so before Christmas one year it wont change.

I am no lawyer but language inserted like "No party may be forced to mediate longer than 60 days at the conclusion of which they are released into a cooling off period" would give us the ability to again say to management “This is how much pilots cost, if you don’t like it don’t have an airline." Prater can want to take it back as much as he wants to but he won’t take anything back until he is committed to doing the things necessary to actually take it back. The threat of the stoppage would be enough to get our point of view across.

For the others that say the public doesn’t care about us; you are right. We are the only people looking out for us. They (management) won’t give us any thing that they don’t have to. They won’t have to give us anything without an authorization to park the planes. So park all of the busses, trains, planes and everything else at once and demand fair treatment. It’s not on Prater’s agenda so “We are not taking it back.” is my prediction.

That’s my 1 cent worth because as an F.O. at Mesa if I give you 2 cents I won’t have a cent left for my self. Back to pulling ready reserve for free on day 5 of a trip.