Marathon Pundit: NMB overreach: Virgin Air and JetBlue

The other radicalized labor panel, the National Mediation Board, continues to fly under the radar. For now.

From The Hill last week:

A Washington, D.C.-based union group has filed paperwork vying to represent flight attendants for Virgin America airlines.

The Transport Workers Union, which represents employees at airlines including United, American and Southwest, said Monday it has submitted a petition calling for a vote on unionization at Virgin America to the National Mediation Board (NMB).

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The TWU is also pushing to organize workers at JetBlue Airlines. Additionally, flight attendants at AirTran Airways will join the group as a result of that company’s merger with Southwest Airlines.

More from Big Government:

Most Americans haven't heard of President Obama's other labor board, the National Mediation Board (NMB). This board is specifically focused on labor relations between the railroad and airline industries. And just like the NLRB, the NMB is aggressively pushing Big Labor's agenda.

Last July, the NMB overturned nearly a century of precedent and issued a new pro-union rule regarding union elections. Instead of requiring the traditional democratic practice of a simple majority of members to unionize, now the rules only require a majority of votes cast for unionization.

If a company has 2,000 workers and only 400 people vote but 201 of them are pro-union, the entire workforce of 2,000 people are forced to unionize. Couple that with the fact that it is nearly impossible to decertify a union, and those 201 votes in effect mandate unionization for good.