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The Government Shutdown Creates Headwinds for Airlines

25 Jan, 2019

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25 Jan, 2019

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The Government Shutdown Creates Headwinds for Airlines

The nation’s airlines are blaming the partial federal government shutdown for putting another dark cloud in their path, with few federal workers and contractors taking to the skies and stalled federal agency approvals causing delays in expansion plans, including Southwest Airlines’ much-anticipat

The Government Shutdown Creates Headwinds for Airlines

Labor Voices: GM Leaves Workers' Futures Uncertain

25 Jan, 2019

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25 Jan, 2019

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Labor Voices: GM Leaves Workers' Futures Uncertain

The focus of General Motors’ November announcement shutting down plants in Lordstown, Ohio; Hamtramck and Warren, Michigan; and Baltimore, Maryland shouldn’t be about money. It should be about people.

Labor Voices: GM Leaves Workers' Futures Uncertain

It’s Not a Shutdown, It’s a Lockout and a Shakedown of Federal Workers

25 Jan, 2019

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25 Jan, 2019

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It’s Not a Shutdown, It’s a Lockout and a Shakedown of Federal Workers

Most media outlets continue to portray the federal “shutdown” as a political fight between a president who once said he would be proud to provoke a standoff and congressional leaders who ha

It’s Not a Shutdown, It’s a Lockout and a Shakedown of Federal Workers

Los Angeles Teachers Have Approved a Contract to End Their Six-Day Strike

23 Jan, 2019

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23 Jan, 2019

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Los Angeles Teachers Have Approved a Contract to End Their Six-Day Strike

Teachers overwhelmingly approved a new contract Tuesday and planned to return to the classroom after a six-day strike over funding and staffing in the nation’s second-largest school district.

Los Angeles Teachers Have Approved a Contract to End Their Six-Day Strike

A Manufactured Crisis

17 Jan, 2019

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17 Jan, 2019

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A Manufactured Crisis

Eight hundred thousand workers. That is the number of government employees and contractors impacted by President Trump’s shutdown of the federal government.

A Manufactured Crisis

‘Pay the Workers, Furlough Trump’: Federal Workers Rally for End to Shutdown

16 Jan, 2019

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16 Jan, 2019

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‘Pay the Workers, Furlough Trump’: Federal Workers Rally for End to Shutdown

Furloughed federal employees and out-of-work contractors greeted one another Thursday with a sarcastic nickname that, on the 20th day of a partial government shutdown, captured their feeling of powerlessness: “Hello, fellow pawns.”

‘Pay the Workers, Furlough Trump’: Federal Workers Rally for End to Shutdown