January 14, 2009 | Headlines, Unions
(The following story by Mike Hughlett appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on January 11, 2009.) CHICAGO — As Congress convened last week, organized labor was looking at perhaps its best shot in ages at successfully pushing for sweeping changes in federal labor...
January 14, 2009 | Headlines, Unions
(The following column by Marie Cocco appeared on the Indianapolis Star website on January 13, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The face of hope has appeared early on Capitol Hill. The vision was fleeting, and it received little attention from journalists obsessively focused...
January 9, 2009 | Headlines, Unions
(The following story by Steven Greenhouse appeared on the New York Times website on January 8.) NEW YORK — The presidents of 12 of the nation’s largest labor unions called Wednesday for reuniting the American labor movement, which split apart three and a half...
January 8, 2009 | Headlines, Unions
(The following story by Peter Huntoon appeared on the Las Vegas Sun website on January 8.) LAS VEGAS — What does Boulder City have in common with southern Wyoming? The answer is two historically linked Union Pacific locomotives, both with number 844. The railroad...
December 18, 2008 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Unions
(The following story by Paul Nussbaum appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on December 18.) PHILADELPHIA — SEPTA and its largest union began contract negotiations yesterday, hoping to avert a repeat of a seven-day strike that crippled bus and subway service...
December 11, 2008 | Headlines, Unions
(The following story by Robert Mitchum appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on December 11.) CHICAGO — Laid-off workers at Republic Windows & Doors agreed to leave the closed Illinois plant they’ve been occupying in protest for six days, accepting a...
December 9, 2008 | Headlines, Unions
(The following story by Monica Davey appeared on the New York Times website on December 8.) CHICAGO — The scene inside a long, low-slung factory on this city’s North Side this weekend offered a glimpse at how the nation’s loss of more than 600,000 manufacturing jobs...
December 1, 2008 | Headlines, Unions
(The following story by Robert Pear appeared on the New York Times website on November 30.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Labor Department is racing to complete a rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the government to...
November 6, 2008 | Headlines, Unions
(The following story by L.M. Sixel appeared on the Houston Chronicle website on November 5.) HOUSTON — Sixteen years ago the election of President clinton ushered in the landmark Family and Medical Leave Act. One of the first things Clinton did in office was to sign...
October 3, 2008 | Headlines, Unions
(The National Railway Labor Conference issued the following on October 2.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) have approved a new agreement with the nation’s major freight railroads, joining 12...
