Posted on 25 October 2011. Tags: National Mediation Board, Transport Workers of America, Virgin Airlines
Nah, not Mary and what’s his name’s father…there was one, right? Okay, couldn’t the resist the title for this story: The Transport Workers Union on Monday is slated to petition the government to call a representation election in which the union hopes to win the right to represent 650 flight attendants at discounter Virgin […]
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Posted on 03 June 2010. Tags: Airlines, Middle Class, National Mediation Board, Railroads, Unions
Last month, I wrote about a welcome change in the laws covering union organizing in airlines and railroads. Looks like this is causing some action: Delta Air Lines Inc., on the heels of last month’s federal rule change making it easier for aviation workers to organize, is facing a stepped-up recruitment campaign by labor […]
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Posted on 11 May 2010. Tags: Airlines, Middle Class, National Mediation Board, Railroads, Unions
We know it’s not easy to unionize. It just got easier, at least for people in the railway and airline industries. The Federal Register out today announces: The National Mediation Board overhauled a decades-old election rule to make it easier for airline and railway employees to unionize, in a sign that labor is getting […]
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