American Airlines' parent is meeting with its unions this week to lay out cost cuts it wants to implement as part of its bankruptcy reorganization -- moves that could cost many of the company's 81,000 workers their jobs and a portion of their pension benefits.
Talks between Qantas Airways and two unions over pay and conditions collapsed Monday, and the two sides now face binding arbitration by Australia's labor relations tribunal.
Furor over fuel
updated: Fri Jun 13 2008 08:42:00
Strikes in Spain, fishermen protests, threats to the UK fuel supply. CNN's Jim Boulden explains.
The security line feels like a maze, the legroom in coach reminds you of the time your son talked you into climbing into his crib, and it looks as if you'll have to circle over O'Hare a few more ti...
The Transport Workers Union's executive board voted Tuesday night in favor of a new contract with the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York City, union president Roger Toussaint announced.
The transit strike that crippled New York City's public transportation system for three days cost the city $1 billion, the New York City Comptroller's office estimated.
Millions of New Yorkers trekked to and from work Wednesday in below-freezing temperatures as the union behind the two-day-old transit strike returned to court to fight $1 million-a-day fines.
A judge ruled a strike by New York transit workers illegal on Tuesday afternoon, while millions of commuters battled their way home in frigid temperatures.
Workers at a pair of private New York bus lines went on strike early Monday -- the first steps in what could be the shutdown of the nation's largest public transportation system.
Negotiations to avert the first phase of a transit strike in New York and hammer out a contract for 33,000 transport workers resumed on Saturday, according to a spokesman for the Transport Workers Union.
New York City was poised to be hit by a transit strike as the union representing bus and subway workers announced early Friday they had not been able to reach agreement with management after all-night talks.
If New York City bus and subway workers strike when their contract expires at 12:01 a.m. ET Friday, there will be "no winners," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said as he described the contingency plan to deal with a possible mass transit shutdown.
Fortune: Squeezing Pan Amupdated: Mon Apr 01 1985 00:01:00
Pan Am, which hasn't made money in five years, was forced to ground many of its 390 domestic and international flights when some of its employees honored a strike by the Transport Workers Union. Ne...
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