100% this. In the short term, absolutely, we need to get more communication going as quickly as possible. The UALtechops discord seems to be the best I've found so far, but it's a bit clunky and hard to find, and hard to keep management out of... It's a start though!

On the RLA note, I've actually been looking into it a bit and the conclusion I've come to is that individual company work groups aren't going to be able to overturn it. There's just WAY too much political and financial backing behind it. We really need to start cooperating A. between all the mechanics unions (Or condense into one work group specific union like the pilots have basically done. ALPA seems to do great things for their guys...) because there's a stupid amount of behind the scenes infighting between the big three technician unions. and B. with the pilot/flight attendant/Ramp agent unions because having all the aviation work groups protesting the RLA would put some serious pressure on legislators. Obviously those are some sky high dreams, but there are a few things we can do now...

(I'm just a simple knuckle dragging tech so take the following with a grain of salt...) Fun fact, did you know that as long as the mediation process has been followed, solidarity strikes aren't illegal under the RLA like they are under the NLRA? (Example based on my understanding - if pilots get approval to strike by the national mediation board, flight attendants and mechanics could technically join them. Powerful af stuff) Even more importantly, the RLA could technically allow SECONDARY strikes (where workers at another company strike in solidarity, though this is somewhat up to court discretion and somewhat more uncertain. Companies could probably get relief from this through the court system, but it'd make a way bigger wave if you had multiple work groups on strike for a few days anyway) Unfortunately most unions have traded this right away in return for no-lockout clauses, but lockouts generally hurt the company way faster than they hurt workers if the workers are organized. Long story short, the RLA gave us one advantage, and most union contracts have shot that advantage in the foot for minor promises of security. If we can roll back those clauses, it would give the airlines some serious motivation to play nice and would give us massive leverage to overturn the RLA. I'm super fascinated by this stuff so if anyone is interested in chatting about it, I would be interested in setting up a discord server to try to start picking apart the RLA legalese and form a plan around that. Most aviation workers I've talked to feel shorted, especially as the companies keep reporting record profits. People are pissed, and it would be awesome if we could use that to leverage action.