Railway Labor Act, 2rd Edition

For representation disputes, major disputes, statutory disputes, and collective bargaining


Characterize the nature of a union-management dispute---then know how to pursue your party's interests with this complete, specialized resource on the structure and case law of the Railway Labor Act (RLA). Meticulously researched and written by leading practitioners from the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law's Committee on Railway and Airline Labor Law, The Railway Labor Act, Third Edition incorporates the perspectives of management, union, and neutrals into an authoritative text comparable to the ABA/Bloomberg BNA treatise The Developing Labor Law: The Board, the Courts, and the National Labor Relations Act in precision, scope and ease of use.

The Railway Labor Act, Third Editionis the definitive resource to enrich case research and planning with vital background on the federal labor law of railways and airlines, including references to more than 1,200 cases, the text of the Railway Labor Act (RLA) and the National Mediation Board (NMB) Rules and Manual. The authors' valuable insights are sure to maximize the effectiveness of negotiators or advocates. The treatise presents balanced, exhaustive analysis from the experts on each issue or topic relating to the RLA, including:

• Scope of coverage
• Selection of a bargaining representative---a "soup to nuts" discussion of the NMB's representation function
• Judicial protection of employee RLA rights

Important updates in the Third Editioninclude:

• A new chapter devoted exclusively to mergers and acquisitions in the airline and railroad industries that includes discussion of the application of the NMB's Merger Procedures regarding representation rights, the effect of mergers and acquisitions on rights under existing collective bargaining agreements, the effect of Surface Transportation Board's protective conditions in the railroad industry and the effect of the McCaskill-Bond statute regarding seniority integration procedures in the airline industry
• A new discussion of contract-formation decisions pertaining to collective bargaining agreements
• A substantially re-organized chapter dealing with the enforcement of collective bargaining agreements, including a new discussion of procedural and substantive unconscionability