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The Railway Labor Act is a United States federal law that governs labor relations in the railroad and airline industries. The Act, enacted in 1926 and amended in 1934 and 1936, seeks to substitute bargaining, arbitration, and mediation for strikes to resolve labor disputes. Its provisions were originally enforced under the Board of Mediation ...
Negotiations between the major railroad companies and the unions led to the enactment of the Railway Labor Act of 1926 (RLA). President Calvin Coolidge signed the law on May 20, 1926, and the Railroad Labor Board was terminated. [9] The RLA repealed Title III of the Transportation Act of 1920 and created a Board of Mediation. [1]: 3
The Railway Labor Act passed. It required employers, for the first time and under penalty of law, to bargain collectively and not to discriminate against their employees for joining a union. [ 30 ] It provided also for mediation, voluntary arbitration, fact-finding boards, cooling off periods and adjustment boards.
Erdman Act 1898, precursor to the Railway Labor Act 1926; Railroad Transportation Act 1920, privatized the railroads and established the Railroad Labor Board; In re Debs, 158 U.S. 564 (1895) upheld a federal injunction for workers to return to work and held Eugene Debs in contempt of court for continuing to organize the Pullman Strike; Vegelahn v.
President Joe Biden asked lawmakers to head off a potentially crippling strike, under a labor law that has rarely been used in recent decades. How a railroad labor dispute ended up in Congress ...
The immediate cause of the strike was the Railroad Labor Board's announcement that hourly wages for railway repair and maintenance workers would be cut by seven cents on July 1. This cut, which represented an average 12 percent wage decrease for the affected workers, prompted a shop workers vote on whether or not to strike.
Workers who maintained railroad cars and station clerks did not come under the statute's jurisdiction. While the arbitration system created by the act was voluntary, the results were binding if all sides agreed to arbitrate. Capital and labor each chose one of three arbitrators under the act; if they could not agree upon a third, the government ...
In 1961, he called “right-to-work” “a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights” intended “to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have ...