Labor
Why are the airline workers smiling?
December 12, 2003DALLAS – Flight attendants at Southwest Airlines may keep on smiling for the passengers, but they have been through a grueling contract negotiation period that has already lasted more than 18 months. One of management’s main...
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Eyewitness report Picket line drama: scab joins union
December 12, 2003BURBANK, Calif. – Hollywood entertainment workers, all union members, joined a real-life drama when they turned out in force to support the grocery workers picket line at the Pavilions store Dec. 4, the 54th day of...
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Pickets cross Borders
December 5, 2003ANN ARBOR, Mich. – “We will stay on strike until Borders [bookstores] bargains in good faith,” say striking workers affiliated with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 876 on the picket line at Borders’ number...
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A class approach to pensions
December 5, 2003Opinion One of the proudest achievements of the U.S. labor movement, the retired worker’s monthly pension check, is in deepening trouble. Union-negotiated defined-benefit plans supposedly provide a monthly pension check for life, insured by a federal...
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A tax added to attacks on unions
December 5, 2003View from S. Halsted Elaine Chao, the Bush-appointed Secretary of Labor, wants to “empower and protect workers” with the new “financial disclosure” requirements her department is imposing on our unions. Thanks Elaine. The administration that has...
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