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… Los Angeles, CA AFL-CIO rail affiliates are gearing up for the next round of national collective bargaining, which is set to commence in the fall of 1999. Because of the substantial interaction between Railway Labor Act (RLA) collective bargaining … and the fact that the outcome of these negotiations will have a profound effect on the entire labor movement's mission to maintain high labor standards for all working families, the AFL-CIO pledges its full support to the rail unions in their … years to complete, workers are denied long-overdue wage increases and at the same time are barred from exercising their right to self-help. The fact is that in an era where the railroad corporations condemn government regulation, those same …