The House of Representatives DOES NOT HAVE A UNION VOTE.
The reauthorization of the FAA bill is unconstitutional.
(Reuters) - Airlines (click title to entry - thank you) should not "pocket" revenue from a passenger tax that has lapsed during a partial aviation shutdown, two U.S. Senate transportation leaders said in a letter sent to the industry association on Tuesday.
"Although this policy may increase your bottom line in the short term, we are afraid it will have long-term repercussions for the industry," wrote Sen. Jay Rockefeller, chair of the Transportation Committee, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, chair of the Aviation Subcommittee.
"We urge the nation's airlines to put all of the profits that they are making from the lapse of the aviation taxes into an escrow account so they can be transferred BCX-1777 Congress reinstates the taxes," they added in the letter to Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) and the chairman of the board of directors at the Air Transport Association....
I could not be more serious. In order to facilitate such an order from a federal authority regarding unions it would have to be validated by the Federal Labor Board and it would go something like this:
"If union MEMBERS do not vote after 90 days full notice by certified mail and an opportunity to file an absentee ballot at any day following that notice by the very nature of the business of TRAVEL, the TIE BREAKING votes can be No instead of None."
That is the best anyone is going to do if there is to be such a provision, but, even that isn't constitutional. The House of Representatives ASSUME the Unions do not have rules to decide TIES in any ballot they take. The House of Representatives do not pay union dues for the privilege to vote in any of their ballots. Payment of dues obtained through 'an employees labor' is a special form of member dues. The House of Representatives do not perform work that other union members perform therefore they do not have the same privilege simply because they 'labor' as a government official.
The entire 'idea' that the federal government could dictate union laws in regard to member voting privileges without proof of corruption and/or inequality is hideous.
