Submit a 2-3 page paper addressing the following: Choose a current or recent labor contract (collective bargaining agreement) negotiation in the U.S. airline industry. Summarize the state of the negotiations, major issues, and resolution, if any. Utilize industry publications and authoritative newspaper articles as the basis of your paper. Solution Answer :- Collective bargaining is a process in which working people, through their unions, negotiate contracts with employers to determine their terms of employment, including pay, health care, pensions and other benefits, hours, leave, job health and safety policies, ways to balance work and family and more. Employees jointly decide their priorities for bargaining. Union employees choose who will speak for them in bargaining sessions with the employer, and vote to accept or reject the contract reached by the employer and employee bargaining committees. A ratified contract legally binds both sides—management and workers—to the contract terms. In the United States, some three-quarters of private-sector workers and two-thirds of public employees have the right to collective bargaining. This right came to U.S. workers through a series of laws. The Railway Labor Act granted collective bargaining to railroad workers in 1926 and now covers many transportation workers, such as those in airlines. In 1935, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) clarified the bargaining rights of most other private-sector workers and established collective bargaining as the “policy of the United States.” The right to collective bargaining also is recognized by international human rights conventions. The freedom to form and join a union is core to the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights and is an “enabling” right—a fundamental right that ensures the ability to protect other rights. Every year, some 30,000 collective bargaining agreements are negotiated. Today, about 8 million private-sector workers and some 8 and a half million public-sector workers are covered by collective bargaining agreements. the airline industry was deregulated in 1978, labor negotiations have taken increasing amounts of time and have been marked less by strikes and more by nonstrike work actions. For the contracts we reviewed that had been negotiated between major carriers and labor unions since deregulation, the overall median length for contracts negotiated between 1978 and 1989 was 9 months, while the median negotiation time from 1990 to 2002 increased to 15 months.Come carriers such as Continental Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and United Airlines have been more successful than others at reaching agreement with their labor unions in much less time. Of the 16 strikes that occurred, 12 took place from 1978 to 1989, and 4 took place since 1990. Various presidential interventions that have prevented or halted 6 strikes have all occurred since 1990, and all 10 court-recognized, nonstrike work actions have also taken pl.

1. Submit a 2-3 page paper addressing the following: Choose a current or recent labor contract
(collective bargaining agreement) negotiation in the U.S. airline industry. Summarize the state of
the negotiations, major issues, and resolution, if any. Utilize industry publications and
authoritative newspaper articles as the basis of your paper.
Solution
Answer :-
Collective bargaining is a process in which working people, through their unions, negotiate
contracts with employers to determine their terms of employment, including pay, health care,
pensions and other benefits, hours, leave, job health and safety policies, ways to balance work
and family and more. Employees jointly decide their priorities for bargaining.
Union employees choose who will speak for them in bargaining sessions with the employer, and
vote to accept or reject the contract reached by the employer and employee bargaining
committees. A ratified contract legally binds both sides—management and workers—to the
contract terms.
In the United States, some three-quarters of private-sector workers and two-thirds of public
employees have the right to collective bargaining. This right came to U.S. workers through a
series of laws. The Railway Labor Act granted collective bargaining to railroad workers in 1926
and now covers many transportation workers, such as those in airlines. In 1935, the National
Labor Relations Act (NLRA) clarified the bargaining rights of most other private-sector workers
and established collective bargaining as the “policy of the United States.” The right to collective
bargaining also is recognized by international human rights conventions.
The freedom to form and join a union is core to the United Nations Universal Declaration on
Human Rights and is an “enabling” right—a fundamental right that ensures the ability to protect
other rights.
Every year, some 30,000 collective bargaining agreements are negotiated. Today, about 8 million
private-sector workers and some 8 and a half million public-sector workers are covered by
collective bargaining agreements.
the airline industry was deregulated in 1978, labor negotiations have taken increasing amounts of
time and have been marked less by strikes and more by nonstrike work actions. For the contracts
we reviewed that had been negotiated between major carriers and labor unions since
deregulation, the overall median length for contracts negotiated between 1978 and 1989 was 9
months, while the median negotiation time from 1990 to 2002 increased to 15 months.Come
carriers such as Continental Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and United Airlines

2. have been more successful than others at reaching agreement with their labor unions in much
less time. Of the 16 strikes that occurred, 12 took place from 1978 to 1989, and 4 took place
since 1990. Various presidential interventions that have prevented or halted 6 strikes have all
occurred since 1990, and all 10 court-recognized, nonstrike work actions have also taken place
since 1990. Although the complete number of nonstrike work actions is not known because they
are difficult to document, our evidence suggests that their use has increased in the past 12 years.
While strikes cause obvious negative impacts on affected communities, we could identify no
published studies that comprehensively analyzed the full impacts of a past strike. Negative
impacts of strikes include the lost income of striking and laid off workers, disrupted travel plans
due to cancelled flights, decreased spending by the struck airline, and less spending by travelers.
However, the overall economic impact of any past strike, including direct and indirect effects
(and the offsetting effect of various mitigating factors such as the presence of service from
competing airlines) has not been quantified. Our analysis of past strikes and other information
indicates, however, that a strike’s potential impacts could vary greatly from community to
community. For example, a community with substantial amounts of service provided by
competing airlines is less likely to be affected than a community that is heavily or entirely
dependent on the service provided by the striking airline, because passengers have continued
access to air service. As a result, a thorough assessment of a strike’s impact on one community
would be difficult to generalize to other locations.