United States Ninth Circuit

Section 2, First of the Railway Labor Act (RLA), 45 U.S.C. section 152 First, read in conjunction with other provisions of the RLA, does not impose a status quo requirement prohibiting carriers from unilaterally altering terms or conditions of employment once negotiations toward an initial collective bargaining agreement have begun, but before the agreement has been completed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/08/2007
• Decided 03/07/2008
• Published 03/07/2008

Judges

• IKUTA, Circuit Judge:, Before:  SIDNEY R. THOMAS, RICHARD C. TALLMAN, and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roland P. Wilder, Jr., Baptiste & Wilder, P.C., Washington, DC;  Duane B. Beeson, Beeson, Tayer & Bodine, for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Norman A. Quandt, Ford & Harrison LLP, Atlanta, GA;  Steven R. Blackburn, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee.