Airlines/aircraft
Workers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport kept up their struggle with a protest at the Alaska Airlines shareholders' meeting.
May 21, 2012 More than 300 people rallied at Seattle Tacoma International Airport in defense of workers who don't have union contracts.
May 2, 2012 Some 3,650 IAM members are on strike against aerospace giant Lockheed Martin after voting down a concessions contract.
April 30, 2012 : Charles Grand Some 400 American Airlines workers picketed at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport against demands for concessions.
February 22, 2012 : Sandy Boyer American Airlines announced it wants to cut 13,000 jobs and impose a range of other concessions--to "return to profitability."
February 8, 2012 : Sandy Boyer Bankruptcy may be a disaster for the 99 percent, but it can be a wondrous thing for million-dollar corporations.
January 3, 2012 United Airlines employees took part in a coordinated pickets on January 7 to protest stagnant wage levels and staff reductions.
January 17, 2011 : Carl Finamore Hundreds of Air Line Pilots Association members picketed several airports with signs reading "Who's Flying Your Plane?"
December 13, 2010 : Carl Finamore Wall Street is thrilled because airlines are making big money--but that doesn't necessarily bode well for passengers or airline workers.
October 26, 2010 : Danny Lucia Today, we raise a glass to Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who gave a vicarious thrill to workers across Great Recession America.
August 17, 2010 Here's a clean, decisive system for holding votes: Everyone casts a ballot, and then the management of British Airways and a judge decide the result.
May 21, 2010 : Carl Finamore The public skies are being privately controlled by only a few carriers well situated to charge higher fares with less competition.
May 6, 2010 Machinists at a Boeing plant in Charleston, S.C., voted on September 10 to decertify the IAM as their bargaining representative.
October 6, 2009 : Darrin Hoop The world’s largest aircraft manufacturer is out to decertify the union at an important plant in South Carolina.
August 13, 2009 The aircraft maker dropped its harshest demands to make a deal with white-collar workers. But some engineers are critical of the contract.
November 17, 2008 : Darrin Hoop Members of the International Association of Machinists voted overwhelmingly to approve a contract that held off management's worst demands.
November 4, 2008 A nearly two-month-long strike forced Boeing to make concessions, but many workers think the union could have made more gains.
October 31, 2008 : Mark Blondin The top union official at Boeing explains why IAM members are digging in over opposition to outsourcing at the aircraft giant.
October 23, 2008 : Darrin Hoop The world's second-biggest aircraft maker is out to starve 27,500 strikers back to work, but workers are holding the line.
October 20, 2008 Five weeks into an IAM strike, the profit-hungry airplane maker is trying to make workers hungry enough to settle for a bad contract.
October 7, 2008 : Don Grinde and Steven Parsley The strike by 27,500 workers at Boeing is a test of whether organized labor can use its leverage to make gains.
September 19, 2008 Production lines at one of the world's most powerful corporations ground to a halt when workers went on strike over wages, health care and outsourcing.
September 9, 2008 : Darrin Hoop Boeing workers proved they were ready to fight with an overwhelming vote to strike--and after a 48-hour delay, they are walking picket lines.
September 5, 2008 : Darrin Hoop IAM members went on a 28-day strike at Boeing in 2005 and could soon be on the picket line again.
August 27, 2008
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