3,000 Piedmont Airlines workers vote "Union, yes!"

[Omaha Steve]

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by: Teresa Albano
July 29 2011


Photo: Piedmont Airlines worker and union organizer Abdur Dilal speaks to CWA convention. (PW/Teresa Albano)

Three thousand baggage handlers and passenger service agents at Piedmont Airlines, based in Charlotte, N.C. and Phila., Pa., voted "Union, yes!" last year after the federal National Mediation Board remedied a rule that favored employers. (Video below)

Instead of counting the votes cast in a union election and allowing the majority to rule, the NMB counted all the workers in a bargaining unit whether they voted or not. That meant a "stay at home" vote was then counted as a "No."

The Obama administration NMB remedied the blatant pro-employer bias in the Railway Labor Act, which regulates labor relations in the nation's railroads and airlines, in July 2010.

At this year's Communications Workers of America convention in Las Vegas, July 12, Piedmont Airlines ramp worker Abdur Dilal tells the more than 1,100 delegates and guests about the hard-fought campaign to win collective bargaining rights, and their next step: bargaining a contract.

[jwirr]

1. When I read stories like this it gives hope that the Unions are coming

back into their own again. They and the internet are the biggest weapons we have in this fight to take our country out of the hands of corporatists.

[leftyohiolib]

2. oh the irony. the gop tries to tank the economy and in the process

drives up union membership. love it

[iandhr]

3. This is great news.

But why will the CWA represent them. I thought the CWA represented tela com workers.

[swilton]

4. Good for them!

[joanbarnes]

5. Good luck. The CWA does nothing for the speed up at at&t.

Too busy trying to get new members, I guess.

[SoapBox]

6. Bravo and Congrats!

[pauldg0]

7. This story fills me with joy....

...because it shows hope in America for the our workers.