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...I’ll never forget an interview I did years ago with the late Richard Trumka, the then-president of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest labour union....
...“President Obama continues to put the interests of labour bosses ahead of the interests of Americans looking for work....
...American Airlines finally plummeted into bankruptcy last week, eight years after workers’ wage concessions seemed to have helped parent AMR plot a route out of disaster....
...When Gerard Arpey joined American Airlines in the 1980s as a financial analyst, his arrival coincided with an aircraft-buying spree that would turn the carrier into one of the world’s largest....
...The mechanics and related employees group includes about 11,500 workers who are represented by the Transport Workers Union....
...Edward Wytkind, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, said that the rule change would force affected companies to leave behind “unfair elections and voter suppression campaigns that...
...Reduced flying, Mr Carty says, means fewer jobs for workers, disgruntled unions and pressure on state politicians to ask awkward questions at congressional hearings and pester the Department of Justice,...
...In the last few weeks, the flight attendants’ union at American Airlines followed its counterpart representing ground workers in asking federal mediators to release them from supervised negotiations – the...
...The AFL-CIO union federation argues the so-called “card check” law is needed and accuses some companies of pressing staff not to support foundation of a union....
...Mr Clark works as an organiser with the AFL-CIO union federation’s Working America campaign, while his wife is a prison officer with the state who saw colleagues lose their jobs in the budget cuts....
...at railroads and airlines from organising at a local level....
...The AFL-CIO points to a poll that shows 73 per cent of Americans are in favour of card check but other polls are less stark or turn the other way....
...The TUC and its US equivalent, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), are joining forces to “thwart employer efforts on both sides of the Atlantic to demonise...
...“In America most of these airlines have gone through Chapter 11 at least once. The quality is dreadful and the old planes stay in the air.”...
...(Congress quickly passed a $15 billion air transport rescue bill.)...
...The service employees union and the Teamsters, representing transport workers, disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO, blaming its leadership for failing to prevent a decline in influence that has reduced the share...
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