Airline employees and Railroad employees work under a different set of labor laws than the rest. For the most that’s a good thing, as the Railway Labor Act (RLA) was designed to protect workers right while maintaining the integrity of America’s supply chains. In short making sure your goods make it to market.
However one issue the RLA has is that if workers want to end their relationship with the union that represents them the RLA offers no straight forward way to decertify that union. Here is one success case where the Flight Dispatchers at Allegiant Airlines managed to do the impossible.
