Originally Posted by
Reroute
Carl, Check Essentials refers to Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board.
I may be wrong, but we negotiate under the Railway Labor Act which is overseen by the National Mediation Board.
Fibreboard negotiates under the National Labor Relations Act which is overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.
Two different Acts, two different Boards.
Correct, but the NLRA is where the whole mandatory vs. permissive argument originates. Most of the legal precedent has to do with "unfair labor practices" which we don't have under the RLA.