Originally Posted by
Blackwing
While I understand that labor groups can negotiate their rights to overtime and other labor laws, I've never understood how SkyWest can get away with it, given that no legal CBA exists with any of its labor groups. As hourly workers, we should be paid for all duty time, including overtime.
Collective bargaining per se does not require a union. A "legal CBA" is one that holds up in court, has nothing to with a union.
But lack of a union makes it easier for a subset of the labor group to challenge the validity of the "arrangement". Easier, but no slam dunk. They have to claim that their interests were not adequately represented, ie that the "representative group" which "negotiated" the contract is controlled by the company.