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ClipperDelta
The National Mediation Board, which is the agency coordinating airline and railroad industry labor relations, was the one that proposed and went ahead and overturned the 75 year old election rule, is also supposedly independent. But look who two of the three board members are: Linda Puchala (formerly AFA) and Harry Hoglander (formerly ALPA)...Don't tell me Puchala has no axe to grind with Delta considering AFA's multiple failed attempts to organize Delta flight attendants over the last decade.
Point is that the Obama administration has made the NMB as pro-union as possible, and the unions had delayed calling elections specifically at Delta so that the NMB could push through the rule change. After all that work, the unions still encountered a majority of NO votes at ALL of the Delta elections, so they have now resorted to interference claims in order to get another try...
The point is that many former administrations had made the NMB as anti-union as they could and yet the situation only in more recent times ended up being such as to enable a change in the practice. That the business lobby and its tools are unhappy with the situation is no surprise; that the labor union lobby and its tools are not about to surrender what little they have gained (rather recently at that) is no surprise either. Put together, that is what lead to the FAA budget showdown. EAS was just a chip in the game.