Risks rise for the mechanics union as their fight with Southwest Airlines goes to federal court
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It’s not the first time these groups have gone to court against one another, or even the first time that Southwest and its mechanics have resorted to the law in their disputes. But the current, increasingly ugly Southwest-AMFA showdown is the first one to actually impact a large number of Southwest flights and hundreds of thousands of travelers a day.
No one, that is, but Senior Federal District Judge Joe Fish. He’s the Dallas-based jurist appointed by President Ronald Reagan way back in 1983 who will handle the suit filed by the airline against AMFA and its leaders. And what he may lack, by comparison with Kelleher, in charm and personal willpower Fish more than makes up for with the intelligence, experience, savvy and awesome power of a Senior Judge with 36 years on the federal bench.
Eventually, after a long process that includes slow-moving federal mediation, it is possible for airline unions to earn the right to strike, but only after “He probably will look at the raw numbers of [airplane] groundings vis-à-vis the historical numbers for groundings at Southwest, and when did those numbers spike in relation to the cessation of the last round of labor talks,” Kendall explained. “The judge will look to see what’s really going on.”
“Is it because a tray table in row 12 is malfunctioning? Or is there something wrong with the engines, or fan blades? We certainly don’t want another woman sucked half way out of a window because a fan blade blew off and broke one of the windows,” Kendall added.
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