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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.
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 [9] The RLA repealed Title III of the Transportation Act of 1920 and created a Board of Mediation.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
In July 2022, a Presidential Emergency Board was convened under the Railway Labor Act by President Joe Biden. [11] His Executive order stated, "I have been notified by the National Mediation Board that in its judgment these disputes threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree that would deprive a section of the country of essential transportation service."
RLA may refer to any of the following: . Railway Labor Act, US; Ram Lal Anand College, New Delhi, India; Risk-limiting audit of election outcomes; Robert Land Academy, Canadian military academy
In the Supreme Court's first major ruling on the issue in Railway Employees' Dept. v. Hanson, 351 U.S. 225 (1956), [23] [24] the Court held that the union security provisions of the Railway Labor Act were constitutional, [23] [25] but withheld judgment as to "the validity or enforceability of a union or closed shop agreement if other conditions ...
The Railway Labor Executives' Association (RLEA) was formed August 16–18, 1926, in Washington, D.C. [5] The membership of the association was the president (or his or her representative) of each member union, and each union received a single vote in the organization's decision-making processes regardless of its size. [1]
Additional restrictions apply to unions covered by the Railway Labor Act (RLA) and unionized governmental employees. The NLRA requires that employees must be given at least 30 days from the date of hire to join the union before they may be subject to being fired for failure to join the union or pay dues; shorter periods apply in the ...
The LMRDA covers both workers and unions covered by the National Labor Relations Act ("Wagner Act") and workers and unions in the railroad and airline industries, who are covered by the Railway Labor Act. The LMRDA does not, as a general rule, cover public sector employees, who are not covered by either the NLRA or the RLA.