Airlines Workers Issues
Strike deadline approaches at US Airways
Airline threatens to shut down operations
By Paul Scherrer, March 24, 2000
Thousands of flight attendants are taking part in informational pickets and candlelight vigils at airports along the US East Coast as the expiration of a 30-day cooling-off period in the contract disp...
Boeing engineers ratify contract
By Cory Johnson, March 21, 2000
Boeing engineers and technical workers voted by a 70 percent margin to approve a March 17 tentative agreement ending the 40-day strike by nearly 20,000 members of the Society of Professional Engineeri...
Teamsters suspend negotiating committee member for opposing concessions to Northwest Airlines
By Cory Johnson, March 21, 2000
The president of Teamsters Local 2000, representing 11,000 flight attendants involved in contract talks with Northwest Airlines, suspended Andy Damis, a member of the union's negotiating team, for rev...
Northwest Airlines fires flight attendants accused of organizing job action
"The company loves to use these intimidation tactics"
By Cory Johnson and Jerry White, March 14, 2000
Northwest Airlines announced March 8 that they have fired 12 flight attendants for allegedly organizing a sick-out over New Year's to protest failed contract negotiations. Teamsters Local 2000, which ...
Boeing imposes last wage offer on striking engineers
By Cory Johnson, March 7, 2000
In an effort to weaken the month-long strike by more than 17,000 engineers and technical workers, Boeing Corp. announced that it was moving to impose the terms of its last contract offer and would gra...
Action against dissidents in airline contract struggle
US court orders seizure of Northwest flight attendants' home computers
By Jerry White, February 11, 2000
Northwest Airlines last week began court-authorized searches of the home computers of flight attendants whom the airline suspects organized a sick-out over the New Year's holiday. Two computer forensi...
Boeing technical workers strike US aerospace giant
By Shannon Jones, February 10, 2000
Thousands of engineers and other white collar workers, members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), struck the Boeing corporation Wednesday morning after the unio...
Technical workers denounce union officials for rejecting strike action against Boeing
By Cory Johnson, February 8, 2000
Boeing union officials representing over 22,000 technical workers and engineers retreated from a threat to launch a February 3 strike against the aerospace giant as union members voted down the compan...
The Onex-Air Canada struggle: unions pit worker against worker
By Guy Leblanc, November 10, 1999
For months a bitter struggle for the control of Canada's skies has been going on between airline giants in the Star Alliance, including United Airlines, Lufthansa and Air Canada, and the One World par...
Merger of Canada's major airlines will mean massive job losses, fare hikes
By Guy Leblanc, October 7, 1999
The struggle for supremacy among Canada's airlines is rapidly approaching its denouement. Whichever of the competing cliques of investors, shareholders and international industry players ultimately tr...
Ansett New Zealand pilots fight company lockout
By John Braddock, September 29, 1999
Airline pilots employed by Ansett New Zealand are engaged in a bitter battle against company plans to carry through job cuts and attacks on working conditions. The company has locked out 125 pilots si...
"We're willing to strike because we are sick of being walked on"
Northwest Airline flight attendants rally in Detroit
By Shannon Jones, June 10, 1999
More than 100 Northwest Airlines flight attendants and supporters staged a noontime rally at Detroit Metropolitan Airport Wednesday to press demands for better pay and benefits. The airline's 10,600 f...
