Actual conversation back in 2018:
Them: “Are we going to strike when the contract expires?”
Me: “No, our contract doesn’t expire, it becomes amenable.”
Them: “My cousin works for GM, and they walked when their contract expired”
Me: “They’re under the NLRA, they can do that. We’re under the RLA, and we can’t”
Them: “They say if we don’t come to a deal, arbitrator will decide, and then we can strike”
Me: “Who is ‘they’? And besides, that’s not how it works, at all”
Them: “I read that if we don’t come to a deal, we go to arbitration”.
Me: “Ah, no. Here are several documents from ALPA that lay out the process and timeline. It’s on your EFB also.”
Them: “I don’t read anything from the union. They supported Bill Clinton”
Me:”….”