Lubin, Enoch & Bustamante PC has represented airline industry employees in their effort to form a labor organization at their particular “carrier”. We also have counseled labor organizations through the extremely complex process of airline mergers and acquisitions and the attendant confusion that results from having two labor organizations vying to be the successor labor organization for the combined craft. Lubin, Enoch & Bustamante PC has also been involved in complex litigation, commonly called “major disputes” under the RLA, involving the efforts of several vehemently anti union carriers to illegally destroy their labor organizations through efforts such as relocating and subcontracting their maintenance work and terminating high-level union officers.

The collective bargaining process established by the RLA is the centerpiece of a statutory scheme designed to preserve labor relations harmony. Its two facets are what has been characterized by the Supreme Court as an “almost interminable” collective bargaining process, and a corollary requirement that the parties refrain from self-help during the course of collective bargaining.
While our attorneys generally do not believe it is necessary (or in most cases wise) for the union’s attorneys to be physically present at the negotiation table, we have extensive experience in drafting and reviewing proposed contact language. What is more important, Lubin, Enoch & Bustamante PC is keenly aware of the fact that a contract negotiation involving a labor organization with no bargaining leverage is not really a negotiation at all. Thus, we routinely provide strategic counseling to labor organizations about the various non-traditional methods by which labor organizations can create much needed bargaining leverage vis-a-vis their employers.