Will this happen in the ranks of more unions? There’s only 600 of them involved here but it might signal the feelings of other union members.
Such decertification votes can be incredibly difficult compared to voting to join a labor organization. But the Flexjet vote is especially rare because it is the only time a pilots’ union has been decertified in the history of the Railway Labor Act, which was passed in 1924. Airlines were added a short time later, in 1936.
“We are very pleased with the outcome, although it was not a surprise as our pilot group has been dissatisfied and disappointed with Teamsters representation for years,” pilot Frank Woelke, who played a critical role in the decertification effort, told LifeZette. The pilots preferred working directly with management and believed the union’s benefits were insufficient to justify the cost of membership.
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