There are an additional 700,000 union members nationwide in key industries who could be getting new labor deals, perhaps after going on strike, in the next year.
The agreement, reached in the early hours Thursday, kept more than 50,000 engineers and conductors on the job, and won members the changes in work rules sought by their leadership. They also got an immediate 14% raise, backpay dating to 2020 and raises totaling 24% over the five-year life of the contracts.It also showed the power that unions can still wield, especially when a strike threatens to deal a body blow to the nation's supply chain and economy.
And as with the rail unions, members are focused on staffing shortages and scheduling problems that they say have brought many employees to a breaking point.The airlines are covered under the same labor law as the railroads, which means the deals don't expire at a specific time. They become"amendable" when they reach the end of their terms, and if no contract is reached, the existing deal remains in place for however long it takes to hammer out a new one.It's not just money.
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