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A s any traveler knows, the U.S. air- line industry has undergone rapid transformations in re- cent years because of a number of market forces. Increased competition, fuel price fluctuations, reduced travel demands, and the fact that many companies were overleveraged left the industry reeling and pushed some of the biggest airlines into bankruptcy restructuring. All the while, passengers shouldered the repercussions in the forms of fare increases, flight cancellations and delays, and fewer travel options. Today, as the industry begins to stabilize, a new threat is emerging. Union labor forces focused on securing short-term membership contracts are jeopardizing the long-term recovery of the travel sector. Specifically, three major labor unions have colluded to strong-arm American Airline...
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WASHINGTON - NFL labor talks broke down just hours before the latest contract extension expired Friday. The union decertified, and players including MVP quarterbacks Tom Brady and Peyton Manning sued the league, putting the country's most popular sport on a path to its first work stoppage since 1987. Despite 16 days of negotiations with a federal mediator - and previous months of stop-and-start bargaining - the sides could not agree on a new deal. The league said it hadn't decided whether to lock out the players, who, meanwhile, went to court to request an injunction to block such a move.
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AUGUSTA Republican leaders agreed Monday to shelve for the year a contentious labor bill that riled Maines unions and heightened tensions with Democrats in the final days of the legislative session. Members of a legislative committee voted to postpone action on a controversial right-to-work bill, LD 309, that could have stripped public sector unions of their ability to collect service fees from state employees who opt out of joining the union.
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Communications Workers of America, one of the nations largest labor unions, is attacking U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R- Camas, for her vote last week to retain language in a massive Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that treats workers who do not vote in union representation elections as no votes. President Obama has threatened to veto the bill if that language remains, saying it would undermine a fundamental principle of fairness in union representation elections. In a press release, the CWA points out that if the same principle applied in congressional elections, Herrera Beutler would have received only 28.6 percent of the vote last November instead of the 53 percent she won.
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More than 600 people are expected to begin a 50-mile march from Marmet to Blair Mountain on Monday to protest mountaintop removal mining. The five-day event comes close to the 90th anniversary of the historic Battle of Blair Mountain, where more than 10,000 union miners marched from Marmet to help organize non-union coal mines in Logan and Mingo counties.
