Feeling the pinch?

[Soverytired]

The president appoits NMB members who preside over airline labor/management relations, no? I don't think ASA got any breaks. How many years did "negotiations" drag out over there? Pinncacle? You can't be told not to strike if you're not released in the first place?

To be honest, I'm not informed enough to make an accurate assessment of this line of reasoning. It certainly sounds reasonable. So the questions are:

• Does the President designate NMB members, and are they subject to Congressional approval (thereby sharing responsibility)?
• Have either ASA or Pinnacle attempted to be released for a strike? What was the outcome of said filing?

In any case, I think it takes a minimum of 2 years of negotiation before a the "s" word can even be discussed. (?) No large airline has gone on strike for what, 10 years?

I honestly don't know how much a single President, or an ineffective republican party can really have on these things . . . I don't know the law.

Guess we'll find out soon. Barak is gonna be the man . . .maybe one of his first acts will be to allow AMR pilots to strike, thereby stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers in 2009? Who knows?

 

[regionalcap]

As a regional captain I have yet to meet an FO at a Legacy that makes what I make or has any where near the quality of life.

A good savings tip if you're a home owner is to have the electric company set you up with off peak pricing. You get a new digital meter and are charged different rates for different times of the day. Around $.05/kwa off peak vs. $.11/kwa peak.

You need to meet more people then. Quit running into the first year FO's.

 

[ualdriver]

To be honest, I'm not informed enough to make an accurate assessment of this line of reasoning. It certainly sounds reasonable. So the questions are:

• Does the President designate NMB members, and are they subject to Congressional approval (thereby sharing responsibility)?
• Have either ASA or Pinnacle attempted to be released for a strike? What was the outcome of said filing?

In any case, I think it takes a minimum of 2 years of negotiation before a the "s" word can even be discussed. (?) No large airline has gone on strike for what, 10 years?

I honestly don't know how much a single President, or an ineffective republican party can really have on these things . . . I don't know the law.

Guess we'll find out soon. Barak is gonna be the man . . .maybe one of his first acts will be to allow AMR pilots to strike, thereby stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers in 2009? Who knows?

I don't know much about it either, but I'm pretty sure he does pick the new NMB members, which will probably affect us in DEC '09. PCL 128 probably knows.