Yes and no. The existence of The Railway Labor Act puts railroad labour at a massive disadvantage in bargaining agreements. The multi-year process to even get t

Yes and no. The existence of The Railway Labor Act puts railroad labour at a massive disadvantage in bargaining agreements. The multi-year process to even get to a strike allows the railroad companies to "starve out" the strike effort. And then knowing that the government would never allow the strike to occur allows them to negotiate in bad faith the entire time. One could imagine an alternate universe where the "end of the line" outcome of The Railway Labor Act was the government immediately nationalizing the railroad company in question due to it's failing to provide a crucial service to the national infrastructure. We can argue the effectiveness/realism of the outcome all day long, but as a thought experiment you cannot deny that the collective bargaining process would go entirely differently.