Originally Posted by
Sluggo_63
What does being based in Memphis have to do with it? Other airlines are organized under the RLA and they have geographically separated members. And "next to impossible"? I submit that it is exponentially easier to organize now in the age of internet and email. Other airline did it in 60s, 70s, and 80s when stuff had to be mailed and gathered. Today it should be easy, but I guess Teamsters doesn't want to put the effort in to do it under the current law.
Drivers at UPS can and have voted to form their own Teamster locals in myriad cities across the land, as the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) permits. Under the RLA, however, the rules for forming unions are very different: The entire nationwide workforce must vote in a single election, and the union must obtain a majority not just of the workers voting but of voters and non-voters combined. (If a comparable rule held for presidential elections, requiring the winner to obtain a majority of the adult population of the United States, voters and non voters, it's not clear that this nation would have had a president since—well, ever.)
Teamsters want the laws to be equal since both companys are. Fred wants to continue to be the union buster he always has been.
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