October 21, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Reuters, October 21, 2013) SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco faced another day without its commuter rail system on Sunday with no talks scheduled to resolve the strike, and vigils were held for two workers killed in a track accident. The strike against the Bay...
October 18, 2013 | Headlines, Unions, War on Workers
(Source: Journal of Commerce, October 17, 2013) BALTIMORE, Md. — A longshoremen’s strike that has idled the Port of Baltimore continued into its second day. According to the Journal of Commerce, members of International Longshoremen’s Association Local 333 struck on...
October 18, 2013 | Headlines, Unions, War on Workers
(Source: Associated Press, October 18, 2013) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — People in the San Francisco Bay area faced a frustrating Friday commute as workers for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) walked off the job for the second time in four months. Representatives of the...
October 17, 2013 | Headlines, Unions
(Source: Journal of Commerce, October 16, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A strike by members of the International Longshoremen’s Association closed the Port of Baltimore on October 16. According to a report from the Journal of Commerce, the strike began after members...
August 15, 2013 | Headlines, Unions, War on Workers
(Source: Associated Press, August 14, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — With Thomas Perez now confirmed as head of the Labor Department, the agency is expected to unleash a flurry of new regulations that have been bottled up for months — a prospect that has business leaders...
June 4, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Chicago Tribune, June 3, 2013) CHICAGO — Labor peace has been short-lived at the CTA in the wake of a historic contract negotiated late last year that changed decades-old work rules to increase efficiency and save the transit agency millions of dollars...
March 18, 2013 | Headlines, Unions
(Source: Bloomberg, March 18, 2013) NEW YORK — German commuter and high-speed rail services are suffering delays and cancellations as Deutsche Bahn AG is affected by warning strikes organized by a labor union for 6.5 percent more pay. Full story:...
March 18, 2013 | Headlines, Unions
(Source: CNN, March 18, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama on Monday will announce Thomas E. Perez, U.S. assistant attorney general heading the Justice Department’s civil rights division, as his nominee for the next secretary of the Department of...
February 15, 2013 | Headlines, Unions
(Source: Forbes, February 14, 2013) NEW YORK — Labor played a key role in enabling the historic merger between US Airways and American, which will create the largest airline in the world. Full story: www.forbes.com
February 15, 2013 | Headlines, Unions
(Source: Huffington Post, February 14, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — One of the largest labor unions in the U.S. will get a bit larger on Thursday, when the 1.5-million strong American Federation of Teachers enters into a new affiliation with the National Federation of...
