CHAOS...Will It Work?

[Napoleon TNT]

Do you think this method will be effective?

(I didn't think XJ went to the west coast) <Read further down>

http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/s17152.html

Flight attendants are making plans to possibly put 'CHAOS' into your traveling future.

Mesaba flight attendants spent Friday at Minneapolis/St. Paul International alerting travelers to their plans. CHAOS stands for 'Creating Havoc Around Our System." It is a tactic to delay and cancel flights. But flight attendants don't plan to put their plan into action, unless a judge grants Mesaba the authority to throw out or change the flight attendants contracts.

"We could strike flights on one given concourse, we could strike flights going to the west coast, we could strike flights ending in an odd number, we could just delay flights for just two hours and then come back on the planes or we could just all out shutdown the system," said one flight attendant promoting CHAOS.

Attendants have already practiced CHAOS on ten flights. Of those ten flights, six would have been delayed, and three would have been cancelled, had the CHAOS been real.

Mesaba airlines said in a statement that making cuts is a matter of survival.
"...We have to act if we want to continue to fly for Northwest or if we want to employ anyone in any capacity," the company's statement said.

Flight attendants handed out cards for flyers to be notified if CHAOS happens.

 

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They can only use CHAOS as a self-help tool IF they are released to seek relief by the mediator. To engage in CHAOS or other "self-help" programs and to use the word "strike" in absence of such a release would be "wild-cat" and illegal. However, there is nothing to say that they can't "fly the contract." (or, in light of the fact that the Company wants to abrogate that, and essentially "release" the Union from it, themselves, then a strike is "fair game.")

I'm curious, though, as to the odd statement at the end: "Flight attendants handed out cards for flyers to be notified if CHAOS happens." That doesn't even make sesnse.