General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers remain far apart in their talks over a new contract, according to the union's top negotiator, making it less likely a ...

Image: Supplied * The Transport Workers Union (TWU) has vowed to take Uber to court after an unfair dismissal case by an Uber Eats driver. * Uber Eats driver ...

The union representing transit workers has a new rhetorical weapon in its battle with MTA brass — statistics showing an increase in assaults against workers.

Australia's Transport Workers Union is taking Uber to court following a food delivery driver's unfair dismissal case.

A video from a top transit union official posted on social media Monday revealed that members of Transport Workers Union Local 100 are ratcheting up their ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's largest union is threatening a large rally that will halt traffic in lower Manhattan unless the state-controlled authority ...

Good news: It looks like MTA leaders are holding firm in demands for major, much-needed changes in their labor contracts. Bad news: The main evidence of that ...

As the biggest strike for more than a decade has shown, the French president has picked a fight with the entire working population.

Nearly four years into negotiations, American Airlines and its largest union could be headed towards a tentative contract agreement. The negotiations have been ...

The MTA's largest union plans to rally outside the agency's Lower Manhattan headquarters at the end of October -- and majorly inconvenience New Yorkers in ...

Two ships have been banned from Australia by the local regulator because their crews were forced to work without pay in breach of the Maritime Labour ...

The executive board for Transport Workers Union Local 100, which represents 40000 New York City Transit workers, unanimously shot down the offer, which ...

46000 workers from the United Auto Workers (UAW) union went on strike against General Motors on Sunday night.

An airline union president promised blood in a contract dispute with American Airlines just weeks before a member allegedly sabotaged a plane.

The Teamsters won't be transporting General Motors vehicles during the United Auto Workers' strike. Continue Reading Below. International Brotherhood of ...

While commuters faced travel misery in Paris on Friday, unions representing the thousands of workers insisted they were right to go on strike. Here's how they ...

One of the drivers allegedly got paid around around AU$300 for 96 hours of work.

Amid looming deficits and ballooning overtime bills, the MTA wants to change workers' contracts to cut back on their vacation days and overtime, new ...

A new study released by the OECD and the International Transport Forum (ITF) on the current effect of direct and indirect maritime subsidies on the European.

Transport Workers Union Local 100 officials showed up at two of Brooklyn's biggest bus depots to demand “safety inspections" Thursday morning, which caused ...

A mechanic for American Airlines is accused of trying to sabotage a plane just before it was scheduled to carry 150 passengers from Miami to the Bahamas in ...

Thousands of MTA workers were at the World Trade Center site.

By making it hard for employers to misclassify employees as independent contractors, potentially millions of California workers who've been kept off payrolls will ...

There's been no activity in contract negotiations between Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority since the union's ...

To the Editor: Transport Workers Union President Tony Utano was right when he wrote (in the summer issue of Transport Workers Bulletin) that any new contract ...

American Airlines and its mechanics unions are set to resume negotiations after a contentious summer.

The Transport Workers Union Local 100 executive committee Aug. 19 voted unanimously to turn down a Metropolitan Transportation Authority initial contract ...

On Monday, after months of total silence, Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 published on its website a list of unprecedented concessions being ...

A city transit worker is assaulted roughly once every three days in New York's subway and bus system, with the number of incidents up 40% from last year across ...

A three-year push by an opposition group within Transport Workers Union Local 100 has prompted the state Department of Labor to notify the Metropolitan ...

Union members reflect on what membership means to them.

For an industry that relies on a specialized workforce, labor strikes can completely halt an airline's operations.

The transit system will be getting hundreds of new officers to protect transit workers—and also crackdown on fare beaters and homeless people.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — According to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, reports of soiled subway cars are on the rise and that's leading to dirty ...

Sunrise Movement protesters inside the office of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Capitol, Washington, D.C., December 10, 2018. One month before ...

French President Emmanuel Macron, having abandoned his top-down governing style and seeing his popularity rise, proposes overhauling the country's ...

NEW YORK - Reducing bus and subway *service*, hiking the fare, and cutting managers - all part of the MTA's game plan to corral galloping deficits. Now, officials ...

Slovenian pilots carried out a three-day stoppage September 8 - 10 over contract issues while Paris Metro workers are set to strike Friday to protest adverse ...

More than two dozen members of Congress signed a letter to American Airlines and the unions which represent its mechanics as the two sides remain without a ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – About 100 aircraft dispatchers at UPS' global operations center in Louisville are close to getting a raise as part of a proposed labor ...

"The move comes after Governor Andrew Cuomo complained (again) about the condition of the subways."

Envoy Air is a regional carrier, which is part of the American Airlines Group Inc. (Nasdaq: AAL) family and operates under the American Eagle brand.

The MTA is insisting that people walk their bikes across the Triboro Bridge car-free path, which can add 30 minutes to a trip. Photo: Google Street View/Samuel ...

General Motors union leaders fly to Detroit this weekend to either agree to take a proposed contract to their members for a vote, or go on strike.

The trade unions are seeking to prevent any struggle against Macron's attack through a series of isolated one-day actions over the next month.

Travellers in Paris are being warned of 'black Friday' on the city's transport system as major strike action is planned.

The Labor Department has proposed several significant changes to the H-2A program which would make it less expensive and more flexible for farmers.

The union representing more than 16,000 Southwest Airlines flight attendants is fighting back against the company's decree banning employees from wearing ...

Dallas-based American Airlines wants two labor unions to pay damages and the company's attorney fees, saying they ignored a judge's order to quickly end a.

An American Airlines mechanic charged with sabotaging a plane was fired from another airline several years ago and briefly had his mechanic's license ...

Construction crews in July wrapped up the MTA's $2.2 million project for a fancy new bus-washing station at the Casey Stengel depot just north of Flushing ...

The immediate task: rein in overtime, which helps drive deficits. This year, the MTA will spend more than $900 million on OT, nearly twice the $500 million a ...

Gig economy workers are fighting against Uber Eats' 'slavery' after a driver was sacked for delivering a meal ten minutes late. The Transport Workers Union ...

Australia's Transport Workers' Union (TWU) plan to hold rallies at airports in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and the Gold Coast on 21-Aug-2019 over pay ...

American Airlines is taking steps to strengthen its business as it continues to feel the impact of labour tensions and delays in the return to *service* of the Boeing ...

Transit workers know garbage when they see it. After all, we remove tons of it from the subway and bus system every day.

The next time you find yourself waiting for a bus that's consistently late, consider that it's not just because of heavy traffic, it could be part of a driver shortage ...

The Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) has called off a planned strike of 3,000 train workers in Melbourne, with the union bureaucrats claiming unspecified ...

The Transport Workers' Union is supporting claims by airlines that airports are financially squeezing the aviation industry. But the union says airlines also need ...

International Association Of Machinists And Aerospace Workers (IAM) and Transport Workers Union (TWU) urged (12-Sep-2019) the US Department of ...

Paris transport severely disrupted as strike shuts 10 of 12 metro lines.

A Chinese shipping company accused of making its sailors work without pay should be banned from docking at Australian ports, the international seafarers' ...

'Part of the Union' with its refrain “You don't get me I'm part of the union”, is a famous 1970's song (by the British band Strawbs). Penned during a period of ...

Questions from transit observers and advocates followed the announcement by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of its $51.5 billion capital program.

Happy Tuesday, all. Ten things you need to know this morning, coming at you fast.1\. An attempted spill motion against NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian ended ...

American Airlines is adding 400 employees to its massive maintenance base in Tulsa, Okla., the company announced Wednesday. The American Airlines Group ...

The Transport Workers Union has launched a significant legal action against Uber, hoping the case will advance the Australian rights of gig-economy workers.

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Lyn Montgomery, head of Transport Workers Union Local 556 that represents Southwest flight attendants, laid out on Wednesay all the reasons she's concerned ...

Airport employees across Australia are set to rally for better pay and more guaranteed hours, but promise they're not aiming to disrupt flights. The "noisy" protests ...

The state of labor in the city is good and has been for awhile,” Vinny Alvarez, the president of the AFL-CIO New York City Central Labor Council said, taking ...

Long known for its efficiency, critics say *service* on the Swiss Federal Railways is deteriorating. Do they have a point?

Members of the RMT union on the Central, Jubilee, District and Northern lines have voted overwhelmingly for action short of a strike over excessive track noise.

Lora Paine's summer beach trip to Florida to celebrate a new job now brings back only frustrating memories.Her American Airlines flight from...

TWU SA/NT Branch Media Release, 17 September 2019 The TWU is calling on South Australian truck drivers to make submissions to a Senate Inquiry into...

By Carlena Knight. Antigua and Barbuda has made history once again as the twin-island state is expected to host the International Transport Workers Federation ...

Neoliberal globalization presents many challenges to labor organizing. Increased mobility of capital has led to a sharp increase in relocation, outsourcing, and ...

Joanna Pinkerton is exploring linking buses to "first-mile, last-mile" transportation, including scooters and bicycles, and microtransit, or smaller buses that can ...

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 ...

Food delivery giant Deliveroo is being sued by one its former workers in a case that could have major ramifications for the gig economy, which includes its rivals ...

According to Transport Workers Union chief John Samuelsen, the MTA's efforts to rein in overtime and pension abuse amount to “creating a hostile [work] ...

Jeremy Rhind has secured the backing of the Transport Workers Union, which says the Canberra man is a victim of wage theft.

Instead of chiding MTA employees who were busted abusing their tax-payer funded jobs, a transit union boss on Thursday lashed out at The Post and the ...

Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) bus drivers have launched a strike citing salary anomalies and other unresolved demands. "The strike is underway at 85 bus ...

Johannesburg - Members of the Democratic Municipal and Allied Workers Union (Demawusa) allegedly hijacked a Metrobus in the early hours of Monday ...

Monash University is conducting a nationwide survey looking to learn more about the physical and mental health of Australia's truck drivers, reckoned to be the ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A federal judge ordered unions that represent American Airlines mechanics not to interfere in the airline's operations on Friday.

FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Fort Worth-based American Airlines says mechanics are defying a court order and continuing a work slowdown ...

The Western Roads Federation has been in existence for two years, coming into being after the WA Road Transport Association dissolved and there was no ...

American Airlines Group Inc. is accusing its mechanics and their unions of conducting an illegal work slowdown to gain leverage in contract talks, and the airline ...

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

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A video made public shows a heated confrontation between American Airlines' mechanics and the president of the airline.

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.

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

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 ...

Profits pinched by 737 fleet crisis, American Airlines seeks cost cuts by offshoring maintenance; unions pushback.

Commuters using Metrobus services in Johannesburg will today have to find alternative transport as the strike by a union representing the company's employees ...

The agreement between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its biggest union, the Transport Workers Union, expired last Wednesday, and workers...

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 ...

Advisors and business owners should get early expert advice on this issue of employee versus contractor entitlements. Australia Employment and HR Worrells ...