Legal Opinion
Flight Options, LLC v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 1108
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 17, 2017No. 16-3606PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HELENE N. WHITE, Circuit Judge.
This action under the Railway Labor Act (RLA) concerns the merger of two airlines—an acquiring airline with unionized pilots and an acquired airline with newly unionized pilots—and their efforts to bring both groups under a new, joint collective-bargaining agreement. The airlines and their pilots’ union dispute whether the creation of an integrated seniority list (ISL) of pilots is exclusively committed to the union, or whether it is subject to collective bargaining with the airlines. The union asks us to find this disagreement to be a “major” dispute…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Virginian Railway Co. v. System Federation No. 40Supreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. v. BurleySupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Philip D. Overstreet v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County GovernmentCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2002
- Leary v. DaeschnerCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2000
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