The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, the union representing pilots for the Dallas carrier, can carry on with a lawsuit ...

The Railway Labor Act was passed in 1926 as one of the very first labor laws in the nation. At that point most of the railroads already had been unionized, some all the way back to the mid-19th ...

The Supreme Court of Texas has ruled that the union representing Southwest pilots can move forward with its lawsuit against ...

The high court ruled a federal labor relations law does not stop the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association from accusing ...

The Railway Labor Act has a few moving parts.It imposes an “affirmative duty” on the parties to exert every effort to make and maintain agreements regarding rates of pay, rules and working ...

That’s why lawmakers passed the Railway Labor Act in 1926, which allowed Congress to impose binding contracts on unionized railways. But just because Congress can do this doesn’t mean it should.

Congress swiftly amended the Railway Labor Act to allow Congress to end a strike or lockdown if it hurts the U.S. economy (which is kind of the whole point of a strike).

The Railway Labor Act was passed in 1926 as one of the very first labor laws in the nation. At that point most of the railroads already had been unionized, some all the way back to the mid-19th ...