Originally Posted by
FirstClass
Someone on this forum proposed doing just that a while back, don't remember who. Back a while ago there was a bunch of polls. Something along the lines of 'let anarchy reign' without the union.
Why does a sickout even need to be organized without a union, pilots would be free to just do their own thing, they either show up for work or they don't. Many airlines have raw PTO, no need to even refer to it as "sick".
Because, as my light reading has informed me, any of those things done outside of the collective bargaining process is illegal. The case study I read was in reference to a fueling company who fired a worker. The coworkers (non-union) decided to strike for 8 hours for one day more than 2 weeks in the future and the courts filed an injunction and ordered the strike illegal.
Any action, union or non-union, done to protest or highlight labor relations outside of the provisions outlined in the RLA is illegal.