Jun 2, 2011
Based on AFA-CWA complaints of widespread interference by Delta Air Lines during the 2010 representation election for 20,000 Flight Attendants, the National Mediation Board has ordered an on-site investigation into Delta's conduct.
May 26, 2011
Adding to an impressive series of legal victories for TNG-CWA members at the Times Union in Albany, N.Y., a federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's decision regarding the newspaper's abrupt end to payroll deduction of union dues.
Apr 7, 2011
The National Mediation Board has determined that United-Continental is now a single carrier, triggering the beginning of a union representation election process for the 24,000 flight attendants at the newly merged airline.
Apr 7, 2011
Bowing to airline executives angry about new democratic rules for union elections, the U.S. House defeated a bipartisan amendment last week intended to preserve the important changes the National Mediation Board made last year.
Mar 31, 2011
The White House has said that the Obama Administration would veto legislation that would strip airline and other transportation workers of their right to have democratic union representation elections.
Mar 21, 2011
Workers' rights are under attack across the country. The attacks on public employees' collective-bargaining rights in Wisconsin and other states are the headline grabbers. But there is also a lesser-known assault -- of national importance -- on aviation and rail workers that strikes at the heart of our democracy. A bill before Congress, the FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011 (H.R. 658), includes a provision that would reinstate the anti-democratic practice of counting workers who don't participate in a secret-ballot union election as having voted against the union.
Mar 17, 2011
NABET-CWA members in San Diego have beaten back a decertification campaign waged by KGTV and two union-busting firms that tried to pit workers against each other and break their will.
Mar 11, 2011
The labor fighting brewing in Washington is heating up, as some Republicans in the House seem to be having second thoughts about making it harder for aviation and railworkers to organize. At issue is the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill and a provision in it that would overturn a ruling by the National Mediation Board regarding elections in those unions. Until last year's decision by the NMB, if an eligible voter did not vote in a union representation election, her vote was automatically counted as an active vote against representation.
Mar 11, 2011
The most high-profile fights between conservatives and unions have played out in Wisconsin and other states across the country. But another one is brewing at the federal level, where Republicans are trying to change the law to make it harder for aviation and rail workers to unionize. But several Republicans have broken ranks with their party, and labor activists see them as an opportunity.
Mar 11, 2011
The Federal Aviation Administration authorizing bill should be brought back in for a landing because it contains provisions that would make it harder for airline and railroad workers to organize unions, several collective bargaining groups said Tuesday.
Mar 10, 2011
Embattled state workers aren't the only ones fighting for their rights today, AFA-CWA says airline workers are at risk, too, as U.S. House Republicans try to kill the National Mediation Board's new, fair and democratic rules for union elections.
