January 21, 2003 | Headlines, TTD
(The following story by Anne C. Mulkern was published in the January 20 issue of the Denver Post.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — As they struggle to stay aloft financially, the nation’s largest airlines are financing a campaign to significantly weaken the negotiating...
January 20, 2003 | Headlines, TTD
WASHINGTON, D.C. -– The following statement was issued on January 17 by Sonny Hall, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Martin Luther King dedicated his life and his work to a belief that all...
January 14, 2003 | Headlines, TTD
(The following Associated Press article was published on January 14 in the online issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.) LOS ANGELES — Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union completed voting yesterday on a contract covering West Coast...
January 10, 2003 | DOT, Headlines, TTD
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following statement was issued today by Sonny Hall, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, in response to the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) decision to deny collective bargaining rights to newly...
January 8, 2003 | Headlines, TTD
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The following statement was issued today by Sonny Hall, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, in response to the economic stimulus package released today by President George W. Bush. “By failing to include transportation...
January 2, 2003 | Headlines, TTD
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following statement was issued today by Sonny Hall, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO. “There is no joy this holiday season for the over 830,000 Americans who will lose their unemployment benefits at the...
December 13, 2002 | Headlines, TTD
NEW YORK — He was never the most flamboyant or confrontational of transit union leaders, but in his nine years as head of Transport Workers Local 100, Sonny Hall managed to thread a steady course between the divergent demands of management and labor, according...
December 9, 2002 | Headlines, TTD
NEW YORK — Increasing the chances of a transit shutdown next weekend, the union representing 34,000 New York City subway and bus workers voted overwhelmingly yesterday to authorize a strike, the New York Times reports. The president of Transport Workers Union...
December 6, 2002 | Headlines, TTD
SAN FRANCISCO — United Airlines’ major unions urged the government today to reconsider its rejection of the airline’s loan guarantee application and vowed to take the fight to Congress and President Bush, the New York Times reports. Two of those...
December 6, 2002 | Headlines, TTD
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following statement was issued today by Sonny Hall, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, in reaction to the Air Transportation Stabilization Board’s rejection of a $1.8 billion federal loan guarantee for United...
