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June 30, 2010 - On
Friday the United States District Court for the
Air Transport
Association is
"The court has
made a just ruling that brings On May 10, the NMB announced changes in union voting requirements under the Railway Labor Act that would bring greater democracy to workers in the air and rail industries.
Just one week
later, the ATA, composed of major |
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| International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) General Vice President Robert Roach, Jr. testified at the National Mediation Board?s (NMB) public hearing on the agency?s proposed change to rules governing union representation elections. ?Every employee should be allowed to choose for themselves whether to vote yes, no or to abstain in union elections,? said Roach. ?The government should not employ a process that assigns a viewpoint to voters who do not cast a ballot.? (12/7/209) (see complete testimony) | ||||
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"The deck has been
stacked against workers for too long with many union elections being
invalidated by unfair rules that required super majority participation ?
a standard found nowhere else in our democracy," said Edward Wytkind,
President of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department. "The new
rules put an end to the practice of counting all non-voting employees as
?no? votes."
The Transport
Workers Union, which represents tens of thousands of people who work in
the railroad and airline industries, applauds the NMB's decision to
reject the ATA's proposal to overturn the new rules. The TWU have lost
elections in the past due to the rigged elections in which non-voters
counted as "no" votes.
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