April 24, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following Associated Press article was published by the New York Times online on April 24.) WASHINGTON — Congress is joining the increasing number of investigations into a stock trading scandal at a union-owned insurance company. The chairman of the House...
April 24, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(Steven Greenhouse wrote the following article for the New York Times on April 24.) NEW YORK — R obert A. Georgine, chairman and chief executive of Ullico, the embattled union-owned insurer, told the company’s board yesterday that he would step aside as...
April 24, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following article by Alex Berenson appeared on the New York Times’ website on April 24.) NEW YORK — Companies, insurers, unions and Democratic and Republican senators are nearing an agreement in principle to end all asbestos lawsuits and instead pay people...
April 22, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following article by Edward Wong was published in the New York Times on April 22.) NEW YORK — Still fuming over the failure of American Airlines to inform them of its compensation plans for senior management, all three of the company’s major unions...
April 17, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following story by the Associated Press was published on April 17.) FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines flight attendants have accepted $340 million in labor concessions, but the world’s largest carrier says it still faces the possibility of...
April 14, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO issued the following news release on April 14.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The new AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch website (www.paywatch.org) unveils an egregious form of risk-free CEO pay utilized by many Fortune 1000 companies — excessive executive...
April 11, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(Pacific Business News posted the following article by Howard Dicus on its website on April 11.) HONOLULU — The Transport Workers Union, representing ground workers at American Airlines, has resumed online and telephone balloting on the concessionary tentative...
April 3, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following article by Steven Greenhouse appeared in the New York Times on April 3.) NEW YORK — The president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O, John J. Sweeney, yesterday called on the officers and directors of Ullico, the embattled union-owned insurance company, to...
April 3, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO released the following statement on April 2.) The ULLICO board’s decision to release the special report by former Governor of Illinois James Thompson is the right one for ULLICO shareholders and for the well-being of this financial institution. We...
April 2, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The New York Times published the following article by Steven Greenhouse on April 2.) NEW YORK — A long-suppressed investigative report has concluded there was compelling evidence that many officers and directors of Ullico, a union-owned insurer, had enriched...
