A wise man once said: " You don't get what you deserve you get what you can negotiate".
Or, in this case, extract by force.
AA management is going to pull out all the stops on this one with massive disinformation campaigns and divide and conquer strategies etc, etc. The ATA knows that if AA can't win this fight then the union busting bankruptcy orgy at UA, DL and NW was for nothing because as APA goes so will ALPA.
This will definitely go to a strike and the White House will definitely order us back to work regardless who is president. Parking 650 AA airplanes will simply be too disruptive on the economy. There are other ways to fight, however. One way would be targeted chaos. Shut down various pieces of the airline on different days. Painful for AA but not disruptive enough for government intervention.
In any case. We will win this fight. Guaranteed!