Originally Posted by
Selfmade92
What I always aksed myself, why aren't US pilots stirking? Are they somehow by law forbidden to strike? (I know striking is a hard thing to do, but it works perfectly at LH and other jobfields, especially in Germany
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Three words; "Railway Labor Act".
Airline industry employees, along with railroad employees fall under the Railway labor Act and are not allowed by law to strike unless they are allowed to do so by a federal bureaucracy called the National Mediation Board.
Recent precedent, allows airlines to declare bankruptcy, go to court, have labor agreements thrown out and then another federal court will jump in and prevent workers from striking after their contracts are thrown out.
Additionally, while in bankruptcy, federal courts can terminate employee pension plans, while other federal courts, once again, prevent employees from striking.
Pathetic!