You truly are clueless, the NLRA permits dues collected through paychecks as does various state laws.
There is no power when your CBA doesnt expire and only becomes amendable.
Guess you havent read Beck vs CWA or Whirpool vs Machinists, the permit workers to be non-members and only pay whats germane to the CBA.
Have you ever seen a NLRA CBA negotiations take four years?
And an airline can choose to lockout workers even if its in the CBA that there is a no strike, no lockout, what happened in stations like BUF and others?
And yet you fail to post at the end of the thirty days, the company can impose a new CBA with new pay, benefits and working conditions as the status quo requirement is gone.
The NMB doesnt decide if a union goes on strike, they only give permission too after a 30 day cooling off period, then the President, which happened to the APA can enact a PEB and order them back to work and Congress can even legislate a CBA if the union doesnt accept the PEB findings.
Like I said, go read the book Strike, it clearly shows you how and why the RLA came into effect, it was to stop the strikes against the railroads. And please show the board, what airline was around in 1926, let me give you a hint, that would be ZERO!
Go educate yourself:
I found a simple one so that you could understand it.
http://www.pennfedbm...Simplified.html
Decades of railroad labor unrest which included widespread and often violent work stoppages frequently pitted federal soldiers against striking railroad workers. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge urged both Railroads and Unions to recommend legislation for better labor/management relations and reduce the threat of railroad shutdowns. Railroads and their unions jointly drafted legislation, whose premise is that arms-length negotiations (jaw-jaw, not war-war) promote more stable labor relations. Formally signed by President Coolidge on May 20, 1926, this new law was designated the Railway Labor Act of 1926 (RLA).
The RLA contains five basic purposes
To avoid any interruption to commerce.
To ensure an unhindered right of employees to join a labor union (added in 1934).
To provide complete independence of organization by both parties to carry out the purposes of the RLA.
To assist in the prompt and orderly settlement of disputes covering rates of
pay, work rules, or working conditions.
To assist in the prompt and orderly settlement of disputes growing out of
grievances or out of the interpretation or application of existing contracts covering the rates of pay, work rules or working conditions.
