November 26, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON — By meeting the needs of dock workers for health care, job security, economic security, safety and good pensions while also addressing important technology issues, the ILWU has negotiated a truly historic tentative contract for its members. ILWU...
November 25, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON — West Coast dock employers and the dockworkers union reached a tentative six- year contract agreement that could bring stability to the nation’s busiest ports while easing restrictions that have blocked implementation of information technology...
November 25, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
NEW YORK — New York City Transit spokesman said yesterday that extra security precautions would be added so that routine subway track maintenance could resume today, ending a work freeze put in place Saturday. Such work had been suspended after two workers were...
November 22, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Working families made Wal-Mart America’s leading retailer and employer. Now it’s time for Wal-Mart to become a corporate leader working families can respect. In recent years, investigations of Wal-Mart have revealed many charges of...
November 22, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
LONDON — One of America’s leading investment banks, Morgan Stanley, has outraged US unions by telling clients to pull their money out of heavily unionized industries, the Guardian Newspaper reported. “Look for the union label – and run the...
November 22, 2002 | Accident, AFL-CIO, Headlines
NEW YORK — The New York Times reports that a subway worker was struck and killed on the tracks yesterday just north of the West 96th Street station, disrupting train service for more than 90 minutes in midday and prompting renewed demands by the transit...
November 20, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
By AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney WASHINGTON, D.C. — On November 19, the Senate voted against stripping out of the Homeland Security bill special interest gifts to Republican campaign donors, arguing that removing those provisions would slow the...
November 19, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
HONOLULU, Hawaii — UAL Corp. says it will save $1.3 billion in five years by cutting non-union employee salaries 2.8 percent to 10.7 percent, skipping 2002 merit raises, and issuing stock options to the affected people, Pacific Business News reported. These...
November 19, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — The proposed merger between the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes (BMWE) and the International Brotherhood of Boilermaker, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers (Boilermakers) was defeated on November 14 by a margin of...
November 14, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The legislation considered by the U.S. House of Representatives today authorizes the Bush Administration to strip workers of their existing collective bargaining rights and civil service protections as their jobs are transferred into the new...
