It’s could be against the Wagner Act for airline workers to strike in this manner. It would certainly invite the intervention and mediation of the NLRB in the matter. By keeping it undeclared and unofficial they head off labor litigation which would ruin the company and create an immediate crisis that required federal intervention. The union also could not sanction such a probably illegal strike. Even organizing such a sick in could be considered illegal given the separate treatment of infrastructure labor under the Wagner Act plus amendments and the Railway Labor Act which does cover airline workers.
Such a strike would likely be illegal and could lead to the dissolution and decertification of the union. Corporate, labor, and the feds all have good reason to run FUD on this in the hopes that it can be settled before it kerplodes into infinity hours of legal bills.
Such a strike would likely be illegal and could lead to the dissolution and decertification of the union. Corporate, labor, and the feds all have good reason to run FUD on this in the hopes that it can be settled before it kerplodes into infinity hours of legal bills.