Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co.

This case arises out of the Nation’s longest railroad labor dispute, much of the history of which is recorded in the pages of the United States and federal reports.1 The events most pertinent to the present litigation began on April 24, 1966, when the Florida East Coast Railway Company (FEC), having exhausted all procedures required by the Railway Labor Act2 for the resolution of a “major dispute,”3 unilaterally changed its operating employees’ rates of pay, rules, and working conditions. Petitioners, who represent FEC’s operating employees, responded by calling a strike and thereafter by…