ALPA Supports NMB’s Changes to Union Election Rules

December 8, 2009 - Capt. John Prater, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), testified at a National Mediation Board public hearing yesterday in support of the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) the Board published on November 3, 2009, regarding airline representation elections. “ALPA believes that the Board’s proposal is a long overdue step to level the playing field in union elections,” Prater said. “It’s a realistic but important update that ensures basic fairness and recognizes that conditions for voting have changed since the 1930s.” ALPA joined with the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, and several of its member unions, in unanimously supporting this rule.
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