The 5 days old mass "sick-leave" strike by the pilots of Indian airliner Jet Airways that crippled the services of the carrier finally ended. The striking pilot's union - National Aviator's Guild - and the...
The United States is planning on charging $10-$20 for issuing previously free visas to citizens of the European Union and other visa-excempt countries. The EU and the US have an agreement that allows EU citizens and others that live in countries participating in the visa...
340 unionized locomotive engineers walked off the job Friday afternoon, after a noon deadline passed without a new contract. This essentialy shut down all passenger rail travel in Canada. In a joint...
" Four European Union countries and Turkey have signed an agreement to construct the long-planned 3,300km Nabucco natural gas pipeline. Once completed, the line will bring up to 31 billion cubic metres of gas a...
Update 2: Add to the Insult, Macleans Magazine's Cover feature Mayor Miller in a garbage can with a banana peel with raccoons all around him. That adds to more insult to the city and brownie point to the unions. Yikes, now we know who Maclean sided with!Update:...
opinion by cmegkp | 16 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago 676 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
Allll riiiigght! America's heavyweight automaker has reentered the fray, "leaner and meaner", we hope! At least, that's what's been reported by the Associated Press. So,...
opinion by Mortal | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago 179 views | 8 recommendations | 2 comments
Rick Boardman can say all he wants to a reporter for the Enid (Okla.) News & Eagle — as he does in this video — in an attempt to justify the decision to strike that garnered support of 94 percent of the union members for whom he serves as president. What he...
Lightning strikes are unpredictable. Labor union strikes…not so much. Both, however, can be damaging. When I was growing up in Enid, Okla., a small northwest Oklahoma town of 47,000, lightning was a...
By, Uwe Paschen. Could this be the beginning of the end for Capitalism? On Saturday another demonstration took place with an estimated 100,000 Workers marching through Berlin in protest and anger. Stating on...
created by Paschen | 24 wks ago | updated 22 wks ago 1215 views | 74 recommendations | 47 comments
By Bob McCarty There I was, in a Grand Junction, Colo., hotel room killing time while waiting for the my trip-related activities (see BMW Visiting Western Colorado’s Piceance Basin for details) to begin this...
" The BBC has warned staff who refuse to cross picket lines during two days of strike action next month that they will not be paid. The corporation's TV, radio and online news output is expected to be disrupted on...
created by itslefty | 32 wks ago | updated 32 wks ago 158 views | 4 recommendations | 4 comments
Rep. Gary Peters (D-Michigan) attacked AIG for not renegotiating their “iron clad” contracts the same way the auto workers union (UAW) was forced to do during the recent car-maker bailouts. “In my...
Finally some encouraging action taken through international cooperation. "As the country and the world marked International Woman's Day on Sunday, police revealed an alleged international network for...
" FM Frattini tells Livni his country has problems with conference agenda, adds he is canceling visit to Iran Roni Sofer Published: 03.05.09, 18:36 / Israel News Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni that...
Michigan based Auto giant Chrysler LLC has announced that it is cutting its entire third shift at it's minivan assembly plant in Windsor, Ontario indefinitely, affecting about 1,200 jobs. The company said Wednesday...