June 10, 2002 | Headlines, Unions
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. — Though the official count of the merger proposal is still pending, the preliminary count of all the ballots received indicates that the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen members have voted against the merger with the Sheet Metal Workers’...
June 6, 2002 | Headlines, Unions
LAS VEGAS — The United Auto Workers, one of the largest U.S. industrial unions, elected Ron Gettelfinger as president on Wednesday for a four-year term, according to a wire service. Delegates to the UAW’s quadrennial convention elected Gettelfinger by...
April 29, 2002 | Headlines, Unions
MONTREAL — Bombardier Inc, the world’s third largest civil plane maker, said on Friday it had broken off contract talks with the union representing 7,500 striking Montreal-based aerospace workers because of unacceptable union wage demands, a wire service...
April 8, 2002 | Headlines, Unions
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Negotiators for 23,000 United Airlines Inc. employees want mediators to declare an impasse this week in their contract talks with the carrier so the union can start laying the groundwork for a possible strike by ramp, customer service and...
April 5, 2002 | Amtrak, Headlines, Unions
WASHINGTON — The Transportation Workers Union charged Tuesday that the plan to break up Amtrak was originally drafted by a longtime lobbyist for private railroad interests who was once employed by a conservative member of the Amtrak Reform Council, reports the...
March 27, 2002 | Headlines, Unions
SAN FRANCISCO — The foremost authority on flight attendant history and the International Historian for the Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO, Georgia Panter Nielsen concludes her career as a working United Airlines flight attendant on Tuesday, March 26,...
March 20, 2002 | Headlines, Unions
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Midway Airlines flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO, will begin mediation with the company on Wednesday in their three-year old contract talks, the union announced in a press release. The flight...
March 8, 2002 | Headlines, Unions
LONDON — Talks aimed at averting further strikes by Scottish train drivers in a dispute over pay broke down Friday, according to a wire service report. Drivers working for ScotRail said they will stage another 24-hour strike on Monday, the latest in a series of...
