People can post anything and make statements that they only assume to be correct. The RLA was written at a time when major areas of our country were served by just one railroad company. To prevent the economic chaos that would happen if that company was shut down by a strike isolating an entire region of the nation, the RLA was written and passed into law in 1926. The last time the RLA was amended was in 1939 and it incorporated the airlines at the insistance of ALPA's president.
Not to stray to far from the topic of this thread, it would behoove all airline pilots to read and understand this act before they vote especially when threats are being issued based on what can or cannot be done under the guise of this act. The AA pilots voted no the last time with many willing to take the fight to the very end, something that has never been done before in our industry, and press to test the effects of this antiquated set of regulations. Voting no again would assure a show down in many ways but not the least of which is how much the RLA could be exposed for its failure to achhieve its initial intent or how a group without a contract could react or even be covered by the tenants of the regulation.
Basically it is a shame that the leaders of this profession are content to allow airline management to run all over us with the blessing of the federal government via the 1926 RLA.