You have to remember that a CHAOS strike is not like your traditional strike, although it can be if that is what AFA chooses.
It is a series of small work actions across the system, designed to prevent the company from knowing when or where it is going to happen. Therefore, the company cannot plan to have replacement workers available, even if they could get them trained that quickly.
It also protects the traveling public somewhat, because AFA can choose to CHAOS a US flight in a city where there are adequate flights and seats on another carrier, to get the passengers where they need to go. We do not want to hurt the passengers. We want to demonstrate to the company that we are capable of creating the kind of upheaval in their lives, as they have in ours, for years.
The reason the AFA international, and all of the airlines that they represent, have agreed to this is because if US is successful in the courts, then all of the other airlines will follow suit. That is also why American flight attendants, (who are not even AFA affiliated) have agreed to help AFA if the contracts are abrogated. It will truly be a "race to the bottom!"
CHAOS is a proven technique that does exactly what it's name implies, creates CHAOS. You can hardly blame the employees at US, or for that matter throughout the industry, for wanting to be able to control the chaos that we have been forced to endure. The only difference is that this time, the unions would be calling the shots.
Organized labor in every industry across the country has been taking a lickin' for years. It seems to me that it would behoove any labor unions that works on any airline property in this country, to climb on the CHAOS bus, should a CHAOS strike occur on their property.
Because, if the abrogation of the US contracts is successful, then what is to prevent any management team in any industry from doing the same with their contracts? ALL ABOARD!!!
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