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100% of flight attendants are union members and it is a closed shop as per AA's FA union and per AA.

• Brybry 1y ago
  So looks like you're right but there's also some weird language technicality for "closed shop" where it's really a "union shop". Per the APFA contract[1] employees are forced to join the union within 60 days of assignment as a flight attendant. This is technically considered a union shop (not a closed shop) because it doesn't require people to be union members before being hired. Under the Taft-Hartley Act a lot of states (and in some situations, court decisions) have made this illegal[2] via right-to-work laws but airlines are covered under the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. § 152)[3] which allows it (upheld by the US Supreme Court in Railway Employes' Department v. Hanson, 351 U.S. 225)[4] . So, I was wrong and the employees had no choice but continue to be union members and pay dues or be fired because of airline-specific labor law. [1] https://www.apfa.org/contract/ https://www.apfa.org/contract/ [page 237, 35-10] [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act [3] https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:45%20section:152%20edition:prelim)#:~:text=Eleventh https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:45%20section:... [4] https://www.loc.gov/resource/usrep.usrep351225/?pdfPage=1 https://www.loc.gov/resource/usrep.usrep351225/?pdfPage=1