Nic, just saw your post. The ACARS block logic is a minor dispute and it's being handled by the System Board. USAPA can't get into federal court with a minor dispute, so they allege in paragraph 5 of their complaint that the company is in violation of Section 2 (First) of the RLA by intentionally failing to reach a joint collective bargaining agreement. Well, that's exactly what the company predicted in their declaratory action complaint filed last July. Reference, paragraph 5 of page 4 of the company's complaint. Yesterday, USAPA managed to completely undermine their own motion to dismiss. I don't think for a second that Cleary doesn't know this, but either he is running out of furniture to throw into the fire to keep the propaganda oven lit, or he knows that the East line pilots are at their breaking point, or both. LOA93 is a loss. Nothing is coming of the Address-gate. The PIC has accomplished nothing. The NAC is a joke. This is the part where karma is discovered to be a beaytch.
Edit: but I agree with you Nic, I've said all along that the company's dec action was ripe thanks to Cleary's threats of slow downs made verbally and in writing. What a moron. Yesterday just underscores why the dec action is ripe.