Judge in Allegiant Air-union case files amended order

The judge overseeing the legal dispute between Allegiant Air and the union representing the airline’s pilots has filed an amended order clarifying the limits pilots have in discussing the case and taking job actions.

U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon filed the revision late Thursday after the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1224 filed a motion earlier in the week asking him to clarify or modify his May 1 injunction order.

The Teamsters believed the injunction order was too broad in restricting what the pilots could say or do in its high-profile dispute with the Las Vegas-based airline. Pilots said the restrictions bordered on prohibiting them from exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech.

The new order said the pilots “are hereby enjoined from in any manner or by any means directing, calling, causing, authorizing, inducing, instigating, conducting, continuing, encouraging or engaging in any strike, work stoppage, “work-to-rule,” sickout, slow-down, picketing or other concerted refusal to perform normal employment duties in violation of the Railway Labor Act.”

The judge’s order also said the injunction has no bearing on the Teamsters rights to engage in economic self-help once the parties exhaust the Railway Labor Act’s major dispute resolution procedures.

The union is still seeking an expedited appeal ruling on Gordon’s order.

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