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A PEB and possible follow-on action by the Congress IS settled law. Even though the Congress has never done it before, they could. But that's beside the point of people here trying to frame a strike as an impossibility. It's just not true. The NMB is not a total blocking agent...witness the Spirit strike. PEB's do not stop a strike...it can only delay it a maximum of 60 days. Congress can intervene and impose a contract on a union...but they've never done so in history (that I know of anyway).
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While they've yet to do it to an airline union, Congress has legislated working conditions under the Railway Labor Act a bunch of times, the most recent that I remember being in 1991. They also intervened after a 4 day railroad strike in 1982.
The railroads have also been federalized several times.
You can google the intervention. Congress threatened to intervene in a rail strike last December that prompted a negotiated contract settlement.
Unions Avoid Rail Strike After Congress Prepares to Intervene - Bloomberg
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There have been 243 PEB's, most involving railroad unions.
While they've yet to do it to an airline union, Congress has legislated working conditions under the Railway Labor Act a bunch of times, the most recent that I remember being in 1991. They also intervened after a 4 day railroad strike in 1982.
The railroads have also been federalized several times.
You can google the intervention. Congress threatened to intervene in a rail strike last December that prompted a negotiated contract settlement.
Unions Avoid Rail Strike After Congress Prepares to Intervene - Bloomberg
While they've yet to do it to an airline union, Congress has legislated working conditions under the Railway Labor Act a bunch of times, the most recent that I remember being in 1991. They also intervened after a 4 day railroad strike in 1982.
The railroads have also been federalized several times.
You can google the intervention. Congress threatened to intervene in a rail strike last December that prompted a negotiated contract settlement.
Unions Avoid Rail Strike After Congress Prepares to Intervene - Bloomberg
But your post regarding the very recent threats of intervention by Congress actually supports the discussion we've been having. This proves that strikes and serious strike threats are not impossible in the RLA, and the NMB is not some sort of blocking agent of unions' right to strike. Some people have been strongly inferring this...and it's patently false.
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Flew with a LCA today and he also mentioned the "big announcement" by the company in April. He said he didn't know any details.
Any guesses what this might be?
Any guesses what this might be?
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