Railway
Labor Act - key word index links to full text of RLA
Railway
Labor Act - RLA section index links to full text
Railway
Labor Act - full text (45 U.S.C. 151-188)
Flowchart of collective bargaining process under the
RLA
Flowchart of contract administration process under the
RLA
Key case law outline of the RLA
Course of study on the RLA
Airline Labor Relations Summary
The Railway
Labor Act became federal law in 1926 with the active support of labor and
management in the railway industry. In 1936, the Act was extended to
the U.S. airline industry. Today, decades later, the Act continues to
provide a practical legal framework for the resolution of labor management
matters in those two industries, including employee representation issues,
as well as collective bargaining and
contract administration processes where employees have chosen to be represented
by a labor union.
At times, both labor and management have
expressed concern that the Act does not permit self-help in the form of
labor strikes or management implementations, except after the Act's
extensive dispute resolution processes have been utilized. However,
the methodical dispute resolution mechanisms of the Railway Labor Act are what
have provided our nation with stable labor management
relations in the key railway and airline industries for all of these
years.
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