Federal judge bars Allegiant Air pilots from going on strike
Source: AP
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal judge in Las Vegas has issued an order barring Allegiant Air pilots from going on strike while mediation is under way in their labor dispute.
Judge Andrew Gordon ruled Friday that International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1224 can't strike in order to gain leverage over the airline while both sides are in mediation under federal law.
The union argued that it is allowed to strike because the company had not obeyed a court order to restore work rules in its pilot-labor contract.
Allegiant, which is based in Las Vegas, said in a statement that the order will prevent disruption of travel for thousands of passengers. The company said it will now spend its energy negotiating a contract that's beneficial to pilots and the company.
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and the Taft Hartley Act have always ham strung airline or control tower personnel in striking or by any union from striking for that matter--------because national defense is invoked.
And as soon as you go into mediation the games begin literally, it is almost impossible to get the mediator to declare an impasse or to proceed to the thirty day cool off period, some "negotiations have gone on for years------------look no further than United Airlines (4 years and counting and while furloughed employees on waiting to get called back----the airline and the union is allowing one of the contracts to be used to the hiring scabs off the street because of a loop hole in the melding of two contacts------------there is no demand for an impasses and this is outrageous.
It is a game of pitting someone against someone else------------while human beings are waiting and suffering----loosing seniority and benefits and wages.
Ever since Lorenzo was robbing both Eastern and Continental and his main intent was to attack collective bargaining, the employees in the industry have had injunction after injunction placed on them to strike.
The last one I was in, was with USAIR, and the pilots and the flight attendants crossed the Mechanics / Technicians line and weakened our position, we were outraged.
They, the pilots and the flight attendants were threatened with a injunction to be fined and jailed---------back in the days of unity, they would have gone to jail-----but every union leader is threatened with contempt citations, and they back off, if they say anything about going out on strike or keeping there members out to not cross a picket line until the meandering process plays out.
This Taft Harley act destroys the voices of the 50+1 majority it was designed this way and needs to be repealed now.
Everything is based on the operating structure for the company, and again the Taft Hartley Act is being invoked here, and every other U.S. Supreme court ruling that has been placed against the worker, to the bakers in New York, to the children in the cotton mills, the ruling were against the worker.
This is why this election is important the right wing U.S. Supreme court from the past till today is attacking the worker and this court needs to go back to FDR and Johnson / Warren court.
