airlines

  • A $26,000 Pilot?

    Sometimes high-paid jobs provoke a lot of envy and resentment. But sometimes you feel a lot more comfortable when workers in certain positions are making more than a living wage. While attending the Teamsters for a Democratic Union convention Friday, I met a pilot who took home $26,000 last year as a first officer (that’s the one who sits on the right). And he’s union.

  • Delta Air Lines Workers Soon To Get Fair Vote

    It may soon become much easier for workers in the airline and railroad industries to form unions, and the most immediate impact may come at Delta Air Lines.

  • Delta Flight Attendants Try for Union Again
    Linda Sorenson
    Aug 17 2009 - 3:36pm

    Cabin crews at Delta, the largest airline in the world since its merger last year with Northwest, are preparing for their third union election in eight years. The result promises to shape the standards of work for flight attendants, and union supporters are banking on a new political appointee to help them get a fairer shake in this election.

  • Labor History: Solidarity Begins with PATCO
    Labor Notes staff
    Aug 17 2009 - 3:30pm

    The sign carried by a sympathizer on the Professional Air Traffic Controllers picket line at Detroit’s Metropolitan Airport read: “Polish Solidarity American Style.” With American unionists being fired and thrown in jail simply for exercising the right to strike, the comparison with Poland was inevitable.

  • Boeing’s Australian Workers Want Their Union

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    A group of 25 workers at a Boeing subsidiary in Sydney are fighting for the right to collectively bargain after Boeing’s repeated refusals to meet their demands. The workers, employed with Hawker de Havilland, have demanded union recognition since 2007.
    Boeing’s Australian subsidiary has 1,300 employees and close to 80 percent are covered under contracts. Despite this union density, the employer has shut some workers out of bargaining—and the pay and work standards that accompany it.
    Hawker de Havilland has refused to enter into negotiations with the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists & Managers. The company brought scabs in from the U.S. to replace striking workers after they began holding 24-hour work stoppages in May. Help these workers gain union recognition by writing to Boeing executives in protest: patrick.c.mckenna@boeing.com and mark.d.ross@boeing.com. Find out what more you can do to help support the APESMA members by emailing infonsw@apesma.asn.au.

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    Thu, 10/30/2008 - 5:00am

  • As Profits Soar, Boeing Demands Concessions, Driving Machinists On Strike

    Author(s):
    Tiffany Ten Eyck

    Excerpt:
    Aircraft maker Boeing has been groaning under a $275 million backlog of orders for new airplanes that waste less fuel. The company booked a $4.1 billion profit last year, and its principal union, the Machinists (IAM), says Boeing’s profits have soared by 828 percent in recent years.But all that cash didn’t stop the company from demanding concessions from 27,000 employees. IAM members called the company’s bluff and struck, after rejecting a final offer on September 4 with an 80 percent vote....

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  • Members Drive Flight Attendant Organizing at Delta

    Author(s):
    Joshua DeVries

    Excerpt:
    Flight attendants at Delta Airlines are pushing to join the ranks of unionized cabin crews. With almost all major airlines organized for decades, only Atlanta-based Delta has held out. Now a growing number of flight attendants there—aided by a huge team of Association of Flight Attendants member - organizers from other airlines — have decided their time has come. . . .

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  • Machinists Strike Boeing over Pensions, Health Care, Lost Jobs

    Author(s):
    Don Grinde

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  • Illusions About Employee Ownership Being Shattered at United Air Lines

    Author(s):
    by Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard

    Excerpt:
    The flying public is angry at United Airlines, the largest carrier in the world. Between May and October, the company canceled almost 9,000 flights--most of them while passengers were already at the airports or on their way.

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