Why giving the Detroit Big Three $25B won’t benefit the consumer Sat, Nov 29, 2008 | Comments 2 Dear Mr. Berko: I think this $750 billion giveaway program is foolish. In fact, I find it hard to believe that the government is going to give the Big Three automakers $50 billion to pay assembly...

Tinker Federal Credit Union announces contest winners Fri, Nov 28, 2008 | Add a comment Tinker Federal Credit Union announced four first-place winners and four honorable mentions in the 2008 Specialized Investment Services Scholarship Contest. There were 291 submitted entries. The...

Letters to the Editor: Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 Thu, Nov 20, 2008 | Comments 81 Consolidation urgedI’m a native Pennsylvanian who moved to Oklahoma in 1977. In the 1950s, Pennsylvania instituted a school consolidation plan to more effectively use state education tax...

Detroit automakers' rescue stalls in Senate Thu, Nov 20, 2008 | Comments 4 WASHINGTON -- A plan to give troubled U.S. automakers billions of dollars in government-backed loans is on life support, leaving the fate of hundreds of thousands of workers and Detroit's...

Bankruptcy must be part of rescue plan Mon, Nov 17, 2008 | Comments 5 WASHINGTON — "Nothing,” said a General Motors spokesman last week, "has changed relative to the GM board’s support for the GM management team during this historically...

Washington should say no to unconditional bailout Sat, Nov 15, 2008 | Comments 58 LOOK for political pressure to build in Washington this week for bailing out U.S. automakers. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants a lame-duck session of Congress to send $25 billion to General Motors,...

More intervention is the wrong course Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Comments 2 Remember when Democrats lamented the growing budget deficit and spoke of the burden our children and grandchildren would face if we didn’t put our fiscal house in order? That was when...

HB 1804 draws new legal challenge in Oklahoma Sat, Nov 8, 2008 DENVER — Labor unions, immigration advocates, civil rights groups and even the National Center for Lesbian Rights have joined business groups to battle parts of Oklahoma’s...

First flight pushed back Wed, Nov 5, 2008 | Add a comment NATION FROZEN FOOD?With a growing financial crisis that is causing a jumbled mess of frozen credit, it could mean shortages for food and energy supplies for some countries.

CHL players lift strike Sun, Oct 5, 2008 | Comments 1 The Professional Hockey Players' Association has lifted its strike against the Central Hockey League on Sunday afternoon after the league and the union agreed to meet Wednesday and Thursday in...

Contract talks fail; machinists strike Boeing Co. Sat, Sep 6, 2008 EVERETT, Wash. (AP) -- Boeing Co. machinists walked out on strike Saturday after contract talks arbitrated by a federal mediator failed to produce an agreement. About 100 union members...

Factory had tension between union, immigrants Wed, Apr 16, 2008 LAUREL, Miss. (AP) -- Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to...

Former Raider great, NFLPA head Gene Upshaw dies Sat, Aug 23, 2008 NEW YORK (AP) -- Gene Upshaw, a towering lineman on the football field who went on to win untold millions of dollars for NFL players as their union leader, has died at age 63. Upshaw...

Delta, Northwest Agree to Combine Tue, Apr 15, 2008 ATLANTA (AP) -- Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp., squeezed by record high fuel prices and a slowing economy, are combining in a stock-swap deal that would create the...

Ford Workers Face Buyout Decisions Tue, Oct 10, 2006 DETROIT (AP) -- The current round of early retirement and buyout offers to most of Ford Motor Co.'s U.S. hourly workers will give them options to move on with their lives, but it also...

`No Country' Dominates Weekend Awards Mon, Jan 28, 2008 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Labor strife has been topping the bill in Hollywood of late, yet you wouldn't have known it from the weekend's awards shows: The town's elite seemed more interested in...

Globes Speed by As Strike Lingers On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- Unlike a crippling writers strike that has dragged on for months, Hollywood's first big awards show was over in a flash, with no key winners, no stars in...

Hollywood Writers Reject Award Shows Tue, Dec 18, 2007 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Two of Hollywood's most glamorous events are now caught up in the entertainment industry's ugliest labor dispute in two decades. The Writers Guild of America, West,...

Ford, UAW Reach Tentative Contract Deal Sun, Oct 21, 2007 DETROIT (AP) -- The United Auto Workers union reached a tentative contract agreement Saturday with the last of the Big Three automakers, Ford Motor Co., concluding a historic round of...

Goodyear Workers Return to Work Thu, Oct 5, 2006 AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. workers returned to work Tuesday after a three-month strike against the world's third largest tiremaker and some workers said it will take...