Originally Posted by
CH47-D/FE
I don't understand how a "judge" can block a unionized pilot strike. I don't see how that is against the law. If that is the case where the company can just cry to a judge. Then what good is the union at all?
A judge can do anything he wants, until overturned by a higher court.
In this case there is a major grey area...
The Railway Labor Act normally prohibits pilot strikes except in certain cleary defined circumstances (basically you need the federal governments permission to strike).
In bankruptcy, if a judge throws out the pilot's contract, it would appear that the RLA no longer applies, since it is based on the existence of a contract. A bunch of guys can't just be forced to come to work for whatever the company wants to pay...we do not have provisions for indentured servitude in this country (except in the military).