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S 1479 107th Congress Senate Labor and Employment Airline employees Airlines Civil actions and liability Collective bargaining agreements Commerce Corporate mergers Industrial arbitration Law Seniority in employment Transportation and Public Works

Airline Workers Fairness Act

Introduced: October 1, 2001 See on congress.gov
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Oct 1, 2001
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Oct 1, 2001
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9980)
Oct 1, 2001
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Airline Workers Fairness Act - Requires procedures that ensure the fair and equitable resolution of labor integration issues in certain transactions for the combination of air carriers which were pending or had been completed during the period from January 1, 2001 to September 11, 2001, and which did not result in the creation of a single air carrier by September 11, 2001.

Requires specified labor protective provisions, which were imposed by the Civil Aeronautics Board in the Allegheny-Mohawk merger, to apply to covered employees of the covered air carrier, in any covered transaction that leads to the combination of crafts or classes that are subject to the Railway Labor Act. Requires the terms of a collective bargaining agreement to govern the process of seniority integration where such agreement provides for application of such labor protective provisions in such process. Provides for enforcement of this Act in Federal district courts.

What's happening now October 1, 2001

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 2989 Identical bill Airline Workers Fairness Act
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
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Durbin, Richard J.
Illinois · Nov 9, 2001
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Schumer, Charles E.
New York · Nov 9, 2001
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1479: Airline Workers Fairness Act. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-1479/
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"S. 1479: Airline Workers Fairness Act." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-1479/.
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S. 1479, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-1479/.
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