March 31, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, TTD
(The AFL-CIO issued the following statement on March 28.) WASHINGTON — Since Monday, union members who work in the airline industry have been arriving in Washington, DC from around the nation to tell Congress that it should act now to provide strong and...
March 31, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following article by Steven Greenhouse appeared in the New York Times on March 29.) NEW YORK — The board of Ullico, a union-owned insurer whose directors face accusations of insider trading, voted yesterday to release a special counsel’s report that,...
March 28, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The New York Times posted the following article by Steven Greenhouse on its website on March 28.) NEW YORK — Several union officials said yesterday that a special advisory committee at Ullico, a labor-owned insurance company where directors face accusations of...
March 28, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Kansas City Star posted the following article by Diane Stafford on its website on March 28.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Major changes in the nation’s overtime pay regulations were proposed Thursday that the Labor Department says would expand overtime pay...
March 27, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Leigh Strope on March 27.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — About 640,000 white-collar workers could lose overtime pay, while more than a million low-income employees could begin to earn it under a White House proposal...
March 19, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, TTD
(The TTD released the following press release on March 18.) WASHINGTON, DC — The AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD) today joined four airline unions in asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to review recent Bush Administration...
March 13, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following Associated Press article appeared in the New York Times online edition.) CHICAGO — United Airlines will likely begin the process of voiding its labor contracts on Monday as it remains unlikely that its three main unions will agree to long-term...
February 28, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following article by Steven Greenhouse appeared in tne New York Times.) HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — After backing administrations in the Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars, the labor movement departed today from tradition and criticized President Bush’s...
February 27, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Chicago Tribune posted the following article by T. Shawn Taylor on its website on February 27.) HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Describing talks with Labor Secretary Elaine Chao as “angry and insulting at times,” union leaders gathered for the AFL-CIO’s...
February 27, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following is by Leigh Strope, AP Labor Writer.) HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The relationship President Bush has tried to build with Teamsters Union President James P. Hoffa is showing cracks. “Relations are becoming more polarized than they probably have been...
