Labor – Airline Pilots – Arbitration – Adjustment Board 
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Published: July 1, 2010
Tags: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Labor
The Railway Labor Act does not permit an airline pilots’ union to compel several airlines, the airlines’ holding company and another union, to establish and arbitrate before a multi-employer, multi-union board of adjustment, and the 4th Circuit holds that plaintiff’s claim is foreclosed by the plain language of § 204 of the RLA.
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