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Nearly 10,000 passenger service agents at American Airlines got some good news on Thursday – the union election they have been fighting for has formally been scheduled by the National Mediation Board (NMB) to begin on Dec. 4.  However, there is one thing we already know about American Airlines — it will use every frivolous […]

In case you missed it, a federal judge in Texas just punched Democracy in the gut. Inexplicably, a Texas judge has enjoined a union election among 10,000 passenger service agents at American Airlines.  His rationale?  Well, let me try to explain.  The workers filed for a union election last fall under rules that required 35 […]

We heard good news last night from the National Mediation Board (NMB) via the Communications Workers of America (CWA):  the NMB will move forward with a union election at American Airlines affecting almost 10,000 passenger service agents. As I wrote in May, American has stonewalled a union election long enough through its illegal refusal to […]