Legal Opinion
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Airline Division v. Frontier Airlines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 13, 2010No. 10-2291PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal by the defendant airlines from the grant of a preliminary injunction to a labor union presents a novel question under the Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S.C. §§ 151 et seq., which despite its name also governs labor relations in the airline industry.
On October 1 of last year, Republic Airways, a holding company that already owned a number of airlines, added Frontier Airlines to its collection. Soon afterward it announced that it was shifting maintenance work on Frontier’s aircraft to Milwaukee — where maintenance is performed by nonunion workers — from Denver, where…
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