Originally Posted by
slowplay
There have been 243 PEB's, most involving railroad unions.
While they've yet to do it to an airline union, Congress has legislated working conditions under the Railway Labor Act a bunch of times, the most recent that I remember being in 1991. They also intervened after a 4 day railroad strike in 1982.
The railroads have also been federalized several times.
You can google the intervention. Congress threatened to intervene in a rail strike last December that prompted a negotiated contract settlement.
Unions Avoid Rail Strike After Congress Prepares to Intervene - Bloomberg
I should have been clearer in my previous post about Congress never having intervened. I was talking about the entire history of airline unions, not all unions.
But your post regarding the very recent threats of intervention by Congress actually supports the discussion we've been having. This proves that strikes and serious strike threats are not impossible in the RLA, and the NMB is not some sort of blocking agent of unions' right to strike. Some people have been strongly inferring this...and it's patently false.
Carl