While most employers in the U.S. must comply with the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), employers in the railroad and airline industries need to understand the Railway Labor Act (RLA) and how ...

The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, the union representing pilots for the Dallas carrier, can carry on with a lawsuit ...

The high court ruled a federal labor relations law does not stop the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association from accusing ...

Boeing Co. must face lost wage claims from 8,000 Southwest Airlines pilots who couldn’t work during a mass shutdown of the ...

The Supreme Court of Texas has ruled that the union representing Southwest pilots can move forward with its lawsuit against ...

RAC says the U.S. Railway Labor Act “offers a model that begins the mediation process before a work stoppage may happen, using the National Mediation Board as a third-party arbitrator. The flow of ...

If your business provides contract labor to airlines or if you run a small charter airline, you'll have to follow U.S. labor laws. But airlines are also subject to the federal Railway Labor Act ...

At just over 150 days in, the Trump administration has caused significant upheaval in labor relations, both locally and ...

WATCHING WASHINGTON, RAILWAY AGE JUNE 2025 ISSUE: ... Hill Contributing Editor Frank N. Wilner is author of “Railroads & Economic Regulation” and “Understanding the Railway Labor Act,” available from ...

Fred Smith, who transformed the parcel shipping industry by risking his family’s fortune to found FedEx Corp. in 1971, has ...

Calls for regulations allowing automated track inspections and increased grant funding to help short lines were among topics ...

We consider FedEx's balance sheet to be healthy and manageable. Total debt approached $20.6 billion as of fiscal year-end 2025 (ended in May), similar to levels posted over the past three years. FedEx ...