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Delta Flight Attendants Picket Posh Union Boss HQ for Freedom of Choice

Anthony Riedel — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:42:36 -0500

For decades, Delta Air Lines flight attendants have repeatedly rebuked Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) union organizers' efforts to take monopoly bargaining control over their workplaces.

Despite a recent intense union organizing campaign, AFA union officials have lost yet another union organizing election, but true to form, AFA union bosses refuse to leave this independent-minded group of employees alone due to their blind lust for more forced union dues dollars.

So yesterday, more than thirty flight attendants from across the country met outside the AFA union headquarters on their day off to send them a message: "Leave us alone!"

From one participating flight attendant:

Foundation Attorneys Defend Airline and Railway Workers from Union Boss Sneak Attack

Anthony Riedel — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:11:11 -0500

Union bosses want to their unions to be akin to roach motels: Easy to check in, but impossible to check out.

On Monday, National Right to Work Foundation Vice President Raymond LaJeunesse presented the perspective of independent-minded workers at the National Mediation Board's (NMB) hearing on proposed changes to labor regulations under the Railway Labor Act (RLA) that would enable union organizers to corral tens of thousands of non-union railway and airline industry workers into union membership.

Mediation Board's "Card Check" Promotion Proposal Yanked... For Now

Patrick Semmens — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:29:52 -0400

Last week we reported on an attempt by National Media Board (NMB) bureaucrats to reposition the agency as a promoter of coercive "card check" union organizing. The NMB is a federal bureaucracy whose purpose is supposedly to, among other things, “to promote… the effectuation of employee rights of self-organization where a representation dispute exists…” within the railroad and airline industries.

Today we learn via the Daily Labor Report that the NMB's proposal has been yanked, at least for now. The move is a victory for the National Right to Work Foundation, which opposed the changes:

Sneak Attack: National Mediation Board Wants to Encourage Use of Coercive Card Check

Patrick Semmens — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:16:01 -0400

In recent weeks, the National Mediation Board, a federal bureaucracy whose purpose is to, among other things, “to promote… the effectuation of employee rights of self-organization where a representation dispute exists…” within the railroad and airline industries, has proposed revisions to its Representational Manual that would open the floodgates to the use of coercive "card check."