NMB worthless. How long have you been waiting for a new contract?

[limpyoke]

The National Mediation Board is ********************ing you!
Check in with your airline and how long you have been waiting for a new contract. The "labor friendly board" has had control of the NMB for two years but still have only let two airlines strike. WTF? At this rate only two airlines will get a new contract before Obama is out. It's time to picket the NMB and perhaps get a GAO investigation on the NMB. It's time to take action our get ********************ed for another four years.

 

[Draginass]

Wow. Someone gets it. The NMB is a tool of management. Their job is to keep the airline system running regardless of facts, intent, or ethical integrity. Every once in a while they'll let a non-consequential airline like Spirit use self-help, just to give themselves a figleaf to hide behind.

As far as an airline like AA? No way. AA management has not even given the union a pay proposal after 3 years of so-called negotiations and the NMB mediator has walked away from the talks citing heavy workload.

Obama is no more "labor ethical" than Georgie Bush was. It's all about money and the ruling corporate elite.

 

[Mike man]

NMB worthless.

Did you figure that out on your own Sipowicz, or did you have help?

Anyone who has been in this business for more than a day realizes that the NMB is exactly as you say...worthless.

Maybe we should get our respective PAC groups to lobby for a change in the RLA, to make the process more equal to both sides.