American Airlines Agents Get Ready to Vote

American Airlines passenger service agents are in the home stretch of their 15-year struggle for a union voice.

On Tuesday, the company delivered mailing labels for the 9,600 employees to the National Mediation Board. Passenger service agents are the largest workgroup without a union voice at the airline.

Next week agents will come to Washington to meet with senators and their staff about the upcoming vote and American Airlines' continuing campaign to block agents from exercising their democratic right to vote. US Airways passenger service agents will also be supporting the get-out-the-vote efforts.

Here's the NMB timetable: Voting instructions will be mailed on Dec. 4. The election will be conducted by telephone electronic voting and Internet voting, with the voting period in effect from Dec. 4 through Jan. 15, 2013. The tally will take place at the NMB offices in Washington, D.C., at 2 pm, EST, on Jan. 15, 2013.

Meanwhile, American Airlines continues to tell employees that the vote might not go forward. The corporation intends on appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court, in its last-ditch attempt to deny workers their right to vote. That threat is nothing new, considering that American Airlines has spent the past year trying every delay tactic possible to stop passenger service agents from exercising their democratic right to vote.