National Mediation Board Could Soon Make It Easier For Airlines Workers To Join Unions

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/12261

Submitted by Doug Cunningham on October 29, 2009 - 3:18pm
Printer-friendly versionPrinter-friendly versionSend to friendSend to friend

By Doug Cunningham

A change may be coming soon that would make it easier for airline workers to join unions. The National Mediation Board is expected to soon announce a change that would allow a majority of workers who vote in union elections determine whether to join unions. Right now in order for workers to win a union at the airlines a majority of workers in a class, not just the majority of workers voting in the elections, have to approve the union. Both the Association of Flight Attendants – CWA and the International Association of Machinists want the change. The flight attendants are in a campaign to organize more than 20,000 workers at the merged Delta and Northwest Airlines while the IAM is seeking to organize 14,000 workers at the same airline.

[Ironman3476]

1. About time the pendulum started swinging back the right way!