Aviation Labor Relations

2. In four sentences, identify the Civil Aeronautics Board and describe the labor relations environment developed under it.

3.Use three sentences to describe the air transport labor relations environment after the enactment of the deregulation Act of 1978.

4. List three factors that are positively related to public sector strike activity and explain how these are related to the airline industry.

5. Create a timeline of the annual activity of labor/management collective bargaining from 1978 through 2009, providing a short synopsis of mergers, new carriers and company departure from the air transportation sector. Highlight the areas of most importance.

6. Write a short answer essay identifying the four basic stages that the air transport sector has gone through in the deregulation era. Each of the four stages has had a different type of impact on the labor unions; accordingly, in one sentence for each stage describe the particular impact of that stage. Cite your sources.