Description
Session 4 — Election Campaigns
• Rights, practical campaign strategy, and communications; applicable laws; problems that can be anticipated, including allegations of carrier or labor organization interference; and the role of the Board in election proceedings; Board notices, campaign activities, and technological developments
• Comparison — Air and Rail
Session 5 — The Bargaining Process—Unions and Carriers
Basic tactics in negotiating agreements; clauses (including agreements to begin negotiations early and force majeure provisions); the definition of "compensation" and problems often found; practical suggestions on negotiating policies; national or local handling of bargaining issues in the railroad industry; new techniques and processes
Session 6 — The Mediation Process and Emergency Boards
The role of Section 10 Emergency Boards, their use, recommendations, and implementation processes (including ad hoc legislative approaches); a comparison of railroad and airline processes to determine whether Emergency Boards should be used and other issues (such as whether strikes are still a possibility under the RLA and if "alternative concerted activities" exist)
This highly-rated advanced conference allows you to examine labor-management relations in the airline and railroad industries and the relationship among individual employees, their unions, their employers, and governmental and judicial regulation.
The premier faculty includes the chairman and current members of the National Mediation Board and staff, other mediators and arbitrators, and representatives of carriers, labor organizations, and individual employees.
Topics include:
• The roles of election campaigns
• Tactics in the negotiation and mediation processes
• Grievance and arbitration procedures
• International conflicts and carrier jurisdiction
• Affiliations, mergers, and consolidations
• Labor relations under the bankruptcy code
• Drones, single pilot, Hyperloop, and space technology: what laws apply; new legislation; the creation of new jobs and/or unions
• The significance of the Supreme Court’s decisions in Epic Systems Corp., Masterpiece Cakeshop, Janus and Wisconsin Central
See CLE State Accreditation for credit details.
If you are licensed in New York, this content is appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced New York attorneys. Although, this content is appropriate for all New York attorneys, newly admitted attorneys cannot earn CLE credit for the completion of the course when presented via on-demand.