Originally Posted by
sailingfun
No one cared about Mesaba. I should have said major airlines. The president can appoint a PEB that will be given 60 days to look at each sides positions. At the end of the 60 days the PEB can allow a strike or recommend that a contract be imposed by Congress.
“The President may create an emergency board to investigate and report on a dispute over the terms of a collective bargaining agreement. Under the Railway Labor Act, the President may exercise his discretion to create an emergency board when the labor dispute threatens “substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service.”
News report as the end of the 30 day cooling off approached.
“The airline did not explicitly ask for President Bush's intervention, but it certainly raised the hope that he would block a strike for at least 60 days, as he can do under airline labor law, while a "presidential emergency board," or PEB, considers the dispute.
The statement quotes a statement from the president that he would "take the NECESSARY STEPS to prevent major airline strikes from happening this year, It's important for our economy, but more important, it's important for the hardworking people of America, to make sure air service is not disrupted."
Keep in mind that George Bush was much more union friendly than out current president.
Well I agree the president can delay a strike, if only youd youd said that.
You can double check me, https://nmb.gov/NMB_Application/index.php/presidential-emergency-boards/ , but once again president cant stop the strike. Your own peb site info you lifted that from tells you at the conclusion of the delay you can still strike.
The president isnt the God of all unions and labor agreements. He could try to renationalise the airlines, good luck getting congress to agree. We arent france, but unions do have SOME fair power of leverage in this country.
Certainly a labor friendly president might appoint someone to the NMB that allows for a little more shoving the company around, but only to an extent. The law is the law. Follow it, respect the process, keep the BS to a minimum and youll get released. Im not pretending its a perfectly manufactured process, but it is what we have.