The Transport Workers Union is threatening to unleash "industrial chaos" through coordinated strikes in pursuit of a bigger share of profits from retailers and ...

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American Airlines is suing its union workers, accusing them of conducting an "illegal slowdown" in order to receive better concessions in ongoing contract talks.

The MTA absolutely should look for savings and efficiencies in its $17 billion operating budget. And someone, of course, should root out fraud and corruption ...

The head of the transit union representing New York City's subway and bus workers has raised the prospect of a labor strike as the Metropolitan Transportation ...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- American Airlines is accusing its mechanics and their unions of conducting an illegal work slowdown to gain leverage in contract talks, ...

The agency's board voted in a closed-door executive session Wednesday to appoint a special consultant to look into the issue, drawing outrage from the board's ...

Handwritten bookkeeping is still in use at the Long Island Rail Road. Now the practice is the subject of a federal inquiry.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo accused workers of overtime fraud. The transit union's leader then likened Mr. Cuomo to President Trump.

As of Thursday, 40,000 workers in New York City's public transit system, the largest in the country, are working without a new contract. In a perfunctory statement ...

A full scale industrial brawl is primed to erupt between supermarkets and retailers seeking to harness expanding gig economy providers like Deliveroo to slash ...

As a former chair of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, I am reluctant to comment on or criticize the agency. I know how difficult the job of overseeing the ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to hire outside counsel to investigate alleged overtime abuse ...

TRANSPORT Workers Union members are planning a protest tomorrow morning at Cairns Airport to demand equal pay and regular hours.

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American Airlines is warning that a dispute with its mechanics union could disrupt schedules into the summer, USA Today reports. The airline has filed a lawsuit ...

Fuel transport workers in Tunisia began a three-day strike to demand a long-promised pay increase, heaping a new set of challenges on the North African ...

Legislative analyst identified long wait for operators to reach full pay as factor in high turnover.

American Airlines has delayed plans to redesign its cabins and add more capacity to the U.S. market, due to issues with unionized workers. The cabin upgrade ...

Author Natasha Tynes has ignited a firestorm on social media, where she criticized a black Metro employee for eating on the train and reported the woman to ...

FCC's stop-and-go spectrum review — TSA drills down on workforce worries as House Democrats cry foul.

The Long Island Rail Road's top union official is placing the blame for the MTA's rising overtime costs on the LIRR's president, accusing him of knowingly driving ...

American Airlines Group Inc. asked a federal court to halt an “illegal slowdown campaign” by unionized employees, saying the action had disrupted the travel ...

The International Transport Workers Federation says a long-standing Transport Canada policy directly contributed to the presumed death of a seafarer on a ...

MTA Board chairman Patrick Foye said the five workers have either already been disciplined or will be sanctioned for the overtime abuses.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders's embrace of voting rights for all prison inmates, even for the most-violent offenders while they are still doing time, is just the kind of ...

The MTA and the city's largest transit workers union let their contract expire on Wednesday without settling on a new one, raising the prospect of the city's first ...

New York's MTA is clawing its way out of a looming fiscal crisis by raising fares, securing new sources of revenue and reorganizing operations. Now, it has the ...

The Long Island Rail Road's top union boss is raising “serious concerns of safety and security” following the MTA's decision to use its police department to help ...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's rough 2020 campaign hit another hurdle Thursday as police union and pro-labor protesters chanted "liar" outside his Good ...

WHO WILL BE LABOR'S DEPUTY LEADER?CLARE O'NEIL* Has held the south-east Melbourne seat of Hotham since 2013.* Is Labor's spokeswoman for ...

Sallie Thomas, president of Transport Workers Union Local 239, presented the Board of Education with a petition Tuesday that she says was signed by more ...

The president of the Transport Workers Union local 250 told ABC7 News that Muni operators are willing to sacrifice their days off to prevent further delays.

A photo of a poster that discourages Delta employees to join the union has gone viral for its argument that union fees would be better spent on video games.

Ever wondered where trucks go? Wonder no more. A massive telematics study tells us exactly how and where trucks move. Also: health and safety, daylight ...

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Ambassador Peter Ford, the former UK Ambassador to Syria.

Once seen as the vanguard of a new social order, the contemporary labor movement has been written off by many progressive activists and scholars as a relic of ...

The Transport Workers Union will today threaten industrial chaos across airports and the road transport industry as it seeks to exploit the alignment of enterprise ...

The report last month by the Empire Center for Public Policy that there was a double-digit spike in Metropolitan Transportation Authority overtime has set off ...

Gov. Cuomo on Sunday voiced his harshest comments yet about workers at the MTA's Long Island Rail Road who claimed they worked an outrageous number ...

The U.S Department of Labor has opened an investigation into December's Transport Workers Union Local 100 election in which Tony Utano easily defeated ...

A broad coalition planning action against ridesharing giant Uber in over a dozen cities just received some international reinforcements: Australian drivers have ...

The troubling spike in the Long Island Rail Road's overtime expenses and the disturbing news that some individual senior workers have accrued hundreds of ...

The 40000 women and men of Transport Workers Union Local 100 move New York. As the city's front-line on the subway and buses, they do the hard, dirty, ...

SYDNEY, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Australian transport workers have picketed outside the offices of Uber in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane on Wednesday, to protest ...

Larry Hanley, the international head of nation's largest transit union and 40 year labor stalwart, died on Tuesday, family and colleagues confirmed. He served as ...

Tens of thousands of French workers held a march against regressive changes in labour laws while major strikes continue in Sudan and South Africa.

Fueled by declining real wages, new strikes by teachers, health care workers and other sections of the working class are erupting.

Transit workers have stepped up their calls for more police on the subways after a train operator was punched in the face at the Coney Island station.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – All subway riders have heard for months is that the MTA doesn't have enough money to make much-needed repairs to improve ...

Larry Hanley, who rode a professional start as a Bus Operator in Brooklyn to become International President of the Amalgamated Transit Union while playing ...

On April 21 at 10:30 a.m., while many New Yorkers were enjoying their Easter candy, Denaul Jenkins II, 33, was on the job as an MTA subway conductor, ...

Democratic voters can pick five of the 28 candidates for Philly City Council at-large in next week's primary. The winners are all but certain to ascend to Council.

Leading up to the third anniversary of the struggle by rail conductors and drivers against driver-only-operated trains (DOO), the Rail, Maritime Transport Workers ...

Chris Minns launched his bid for the party's leadership on Thursday, promising a "*fresh* and new approach" and warned that if the party did not embrace change ...

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The stabbing of a Train Conductor who then subdued his attacker on a Bronx subway platform April 21 prompted union officials to prod the city to act against ...

In 2010, as the Amalgamated Transit Union was being assailed for having too long failed to act against the organized-crime figures who exerted control over its ...

Work action due to contract fight affecting bus lines citywide.

Nearly 100 submissions were made to the Victorian state government's On-Demand Workforce inquiry into industries such as food delivery and ride sharing.

While pressure builds on Muni to add new door sensors to its troubled Siemens railcars after a woman got stuck and then fell on the tracks, the agency is ...

San Francisco's Muni system did not have a good Easter week. Multiple system failures and seething labor issues paved the way for the impending departure of ...

One reason that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority spends too much to run the subways may soon become harder to fix. The MTA's agreement with the ...

A man who allegedly threw urine on two female MTA workers — a subway conductor and a bus driver — in the Bronx within a span of an hour was arrested in ...

Pence to Ford — Exclusive: Brown presses Boeing on union.

Commuters will be left with few options on May Day as workers on the capital's urban electric railway (ISAP), city buses and trolley buses are to stage a 24-hour ...

Regional bus drivers in large parts of the country have agreed to join the public transport strike set for May 28 in support of an improved pension deal.

Dutch train drivers and public transport workers in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague will go on strike on May 28 in a campaign to have the state pension ...

General Motors reported $2.1 billion in first-quarter 2019 net profits, higher than analysts' expectations, amid continuing signs of a slowdown in auto sales.

An up-and-coming novelist has had her book deal canceled after she shamed a public transport worker for eating her breakfast on a train. Natasha Tynes ...

In the media. Logistics growth losing steam Key logistics market growth rates fell in 2018 according to Transport Intelligence's (Ti) global market size & growth ...

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has called for disciplined driving during the rush of home-goers ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.

The Boeing 737 Max should be grounded until the cause of the weekend crash in Ethiopia crash is determined, the international president of the Transport ...

An ongoing problem, around driver health issues within the trucking industry, is truck drivers not seeking help when living with untreated medical issues.

Employers have outlined a crack down on unions and casuals double dipping in a list of demands for the new industrial relations minister.

The debate about regulation in the gig economy needed to move away from a focus on how workers are classified and towards a broader approach that ensures ...

Forget retirement, poor pay and long hours - driver-facing cameras are giving truckies another reason to leave the job, according to a new survey.

Welfare concerns have been raised by the International Transport Workers Federation in Australia (ITF) for a crew of about 20 aboard the docked Eckert ...

The Transport Workers Union has called for Canberra's weekend bus timetable to be pared back, after nearly 150 buses were cancelled due to driver shortages.

On Wednesday the passenger rail agency announced it had terminated the former company secretary's contract with immediate effect.

Unionized aircraft dispatchers say they've reached an impasse in negotiations with United Parcel *Service* Inc. The two sides have been engaged in federally ...

Marvin & Palmer Associates Inc increased its stake in Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) by 11.91% based on its latest 2018Q4 regulatory filing with the SEC. Marvin ...

GERMANY – LIBERIA – WORLDWIDE – Last month we told how the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) had gone to war with the Hamburg based ...

A UK labor group called for an investigation of the safety of offshore helicopters in the North Sea on the 10th anniversary of the fatal Super Puma crash.

Defeated Labor leader Bill Shorten has stunned colleagues by actively involving himself in the selection of his successor and attempting to hinder the run of ...

A union that represents American Airlines fleet *service* employees is suing the Fort Worth-based carrier because of what it deems are unnecessary drug tests.

Uber Eats riders and drivers held a major protest on Tuesday.

The Transport Workers Union is ending its representation of casino table game dealers in Las Vegas, closing out its small Gaming Division that represents more ...

Hello and welcome to PoliticsNow, The Australians live commentary on the aftermath of the federal election. Qld Labor MP Jim Chalmers has revealed he wont ...

The national transit union is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on social media ads attacking Mayor de Blasio as a “fauxgressive” as he travels to early ...

American Airlines grounded 14 of its planes earlier this week, citing issues with overhead bins that fail to close properly. While the carrier admits faulty overhead ...

More than a thousand workers went on strike Tuesday at a former General Electric Co. locomotive plant in Erie, Pa., a day after the operation was acquired by ...

Sparks flew as advocates of congestion pricing, most notably members of the Transport Workers Union (TWU), chanted to drown out the words of two Queens ...

The Transport Workers Union Local 514 and area labor supporters want to show their support for aircraft safety and to educate the public about outsourcing ...

The union representing Canberra's bus drivers says it is confident the issues plaguing the weekend timetable can be resolved, after talks with Transport ...

America's transportation system “was brought right to the edge of the cliff” and a short-term funding measure won't reverse pain caused by the longest ...

The Transport Workers Union of America has announced the formation of a statewide coalition to stop autonomous buses from hitting Ohio's streets. Standing in ...

The four labor unions at American Airlines have differing views on what to do about the controversial Boeing 737MAX.

John Samuelsen, the president of the Transport Workers Union, called him a “fauxgressive.” Police union leader Patrick Lynch dismissed his negotiating stance ...

Even as Mayor de Blasio takes trips to New Hampshire and Iowa to burnish his national reputation as a progressive, city public-employee unions are spending ...