By Frank N. Wilner, Capitol Hill Contributing Editor, Railway Age Magazine; February 1, 2019
In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) issued Jan. 31, the Republican majority on the National Mediation Board seeks to create a “straightforward election process” to decertify union representation on airlines and railroads whose labor relations are governed by the Railway Labor Act (RLA).
Most other employers, whose labor relations are governed by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), have within that statute a straightforward process by which workers displeased with their union representation may decertify the union in favor of no representation.
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