Executive Council Statement
Preserving Airline Workers' Collective Bargaining Rights
… attacks by the nation's major air carriers. Led by American, FedEx and Delta, the industry has mounted a campaign to enact legislation that would impose "baseball style" arbitration in airline negotiations, thereby replacing a delicately … in management's favor. The AFL-CIO deplores the nation's airlines' pursuit of this hostile legislative initiative and will work to defeat it if it surfaces in any form in the House or Senate. Last fall, the airline industry secured a multi-billion …