January 8, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following article by Steven Greenhouse was published in the January 8 online issue of the New York Times.) NEW YORK — The largest union at General Electric announced yesterday that it would conduct a two-day strike next week to protest the company’s...
January 7, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following Associated Press article was published in the January 7 issue of the San Jose Mercury News.) SAN JOSE, Calif. — Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union began voting Monday on a new contract. Representatives of Pacific ports from...
January 7, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following press release was issued by the AFL-CIO on January 6.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The AFL-CIO today called on Congress and President George W. Bush to “put more money in the hands and pockets of families who need it and will spend it now” with...
January 6, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following statement by AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney regarding President Bush’s dividend tax cut proposal was issued on January 3, 2003.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the President says that he expects “class warfare” from those who oppose...
January 3, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Decrying the “brutal demands” to force workers to work as many as seven days per week and 16 hours per day at the Graphic Packaging Corporation (GPC) plant in Kalamazoo, MI and the “anti-worker, union-busting practices of the...
December 30, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
CHICAGO — Union leaders urged United Airlines pilots and flight attendants to accept the bankrupt airline’s proposal to keep their contracts in exchange for voluntary pay cuts, reports the Associated Press. Under the company’s proposal, made Friday in U.S....
December 20, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Tomorrow, the AFL-CIO will file a lawsuit against the Bush Administration, demanding that the Administration comply with legal requirements to include appropriate non-business representation on the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and...
December 17, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
NEW YORK — To most New Yorkers, yesterday’s labor agreement represented little more than a crisis averted and the promise of being able to commute without a bike, ferry or sturdy pair of running shoes. But in truth, the implications of the deal reached...
December 17, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
NEW YORK — Averting a threatened strike, the transit workers’ union and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority yesterday announced a tentative agreement that calls for a 6 percent raise over three years and an overhaul of a disciplinary system despised...
December 16, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, NS
PHILADELPHIA — The Pennsylvania Federation Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, and several plan participants, filed a class action lawsuit on December 13 against the Norfolk Southern Railroad and its Corporate Officers alleging that the improper use of...
