Summary
One year ago, American Airlines publicly promised to encourage its service contractors not to oppose their workers’ campaign to unionize, in order to avoid an impending publicity disaster if Philadelphia airport workers went on strike during the Democratic National Convention. But now that those workers have voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the Service Employees International Union—and the contractors have refused to recognize their employees’ vote—the union claims the airline giant is turning a blind eye to its contractors’ resistance, and reneging on its promise.
“We have seen that promise broken,” Hector Figueroa, president of the SEIU Local 32BJ, told The American Prospect.
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“It’s not unusual for parties to delay in the hope that they will get a favorable ruling from a more favorable board,” William Gould, a former chairman of the NLRB in the 1990s, told the Prospect. “It’s been going on at least since the ’60s.”
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