true, it is a poker game.
Here's the latest card laid down. A strike vote is traditional posturing in airline negotiations and usually means very little from my experience. However, in this case, things are volatile and tempers seem to be flaring so it might be a bigger roll of the dice than usual.
American Airlines pilots union prepares for a strike vote
Posted Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012
By Barry Shlachter
American Airlines’ bankruptcy just got messier with its pilots union saying it will consider a strike if the carrier’s parent corporation, AMR, scraps their contract and imposes “negative” new terms.
The board of the Allied Pilots Association on Wednesday agreed to start preparations for a strike vote and a spokesman said it could take place “within a matter of weeks.”
The announcement comes after the company’s move last week to ask U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane a second time to throw out the union’s existing contract and allow it to impose cost-saving changes. Lane rejected the company’s first request, saying it had overreached in two of its cost-cutting proposals. American’s new motion adjusted those provisions.
The pilots are the only union at American that failed to ratify a new cost-cutting contract with the carrier, with members voting overwhelmingly against it two weeks ago. Now it is the only union facing contract abrogation...
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