did you know that railway employees aren’t protected by the NLRA?

they’re governed under the Railway Labor Act, which allows the US government to intervene to stop a union-authorized strike. The NLRA (the act that protects most union workers in the US) has no such provision. The RLA is the law we have to thank for Reagan’s breakup of the PATCO strike in 1981, sometimes credited as the event that started the gradual decline of union membership in the US (because airway employees are also governed by the RLA). Did you also know that most FedEx employees are governed under the RLA, but UPS employees are protected by the NLRA? FedEx lobbied to keep it that way, despite the company’s obvious similarity to UPS. That’s why FedEx employees basically can’t unionize while UPS is unionized top to bottom. The fact is that the workers you rely on the most have the fewest rights.