US tire company spent five fruitless years trying to cut costs at its Amiens plant and being blocked. Now it’s shutting down …
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City May Declare a ‘Fiscal Emergency’ to Void Union Contracts
When cities declare emergencies, the reason is generally a natural disaster of one kind of another — tornado, flood, fire — or at the very least a man-made event that puts people in imminent physical danger, like a riot. But …
Bankruptcy at 30,000 Feet: The Battle for the Future of American Airlines
What would you call the combination of US Airways with American Air? US American Airways? It’s redundant, in the same way that airline service is a contradiction in terms. But a merger between the two is slightly more likely …
Is American the Worst-Managed Airline in America?
Members of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) were scheduled to vote on a new contract with American Airlines, or AA, this December that would have lowered the airline’s cost and outsourced hundreds of jobs that weren’t …
GM strikers play a dangerous game
Here are two industries I don’t closely follow: automotive and labor unions. That latter is one I should probably watch more carefully, seeing as unions have historically played an important role in American work life. I certainly get a lot of press releases from them announcing new bills in Congress or lawsuits against employers.
The …
