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Business highlights Updated: Mon, May 21, 2012 Business briefs Nation Trial in inside investment begins NEW YORK — A federal prosecutor accused former Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta on Monday of feeding inside investment tips to a corrupt hedge fund manager, while Gupta's lawyer told a jury that the relationship between the Wall Street heavyweights... Read More
American Airlines pilots ask bankruptcy judge to keep contracts intact Updated: Mon, May 14, 2012 American Airlines' pilots union pressed its case Monday before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, asking the judge not to abrogate its contract with the carrier and laying out its offers to cut costs that American had rebuffed leading up to the court hearing. Read More
Oklahoma labor commissioner takes aim on public employee unions Updated: Tue, Sep 13, 2011 State Labor Commissioner Mark Costello has set up a nonprofit advocacy organization whose primary purpose appears to be taking on public employee unions. Speaking in Tulsa on Tuesday, Costello said Parity in Oklahoma seeks to exempt all state workers from merit protection for the first three years of employment... Read More
Mazda announces it will stop building midsize car in United States Published: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 A company spokesman wouldn't say when U.S. production would stop, nor would he say whether Mazda would pull out of the joint venture with Ford, called Auto Alliance International. Read More
Thousands gather in DC in support of Dems agenda Published: Sat, Oct 2, 2010 WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people flocked to the Lincoln Memorial for a rally Saturday organized by labor and civil rights groups, hoping to show support for the Democratic agenda in the face of expected GOP election gains next month. More than 400 organizations, including faith, environmental and gay... Read More
Tulsa mayor, fire union reach tentative deal to prevent layoffs Published: Fri, Jan 22, 2010 Mayor Dewey Bartlett and the fire union reached a tentative agreement late Friday afternoon that, if approved by union membership next week, will save 147 firefighters from being laid off, officials said. "There were good handshakes all around the table," Bartlett said. The deal does not involve tapping into the... Read More
Mercury Marine agrees to meet with union Published: Tue, Sep 1, 2009 FOND DU LAC, Wis. — A day after a union leader said Mercury Marine was no longer interested in talking about a package of wage and benefit concessions, the company says it will meet with union leaders. In a statement, Mercury Marine said the meeting with International Association of Machinists and Aerospace... Read More
CHL players lift strike Published: Sun, Oct 5, 2008 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 Denver. CHL players went on strike last Tuesday to protest stalled talks on a new collective bargaining agreement. It... Read More
Contract talks fail; machinists strike Boeing Co. Updated: 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 hoisted their strike signs at 12:01 a.m. outside the Boeing plant in this city north of Seattle, cheering and blasting... Read More
Factory had tension between union, immigrants Updated: 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 get more overtime and supervisory positions. Friction between the union and immigrant workers, along with a tipoff... Read More
Former Raider great, NFLPA head Gene Upshaw dies Updated: 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 had a Hall of Fame career as a guard for the Oakland Raiders - a team that won two of the three Super Bowls it reached... Read More
Delta, Northwest Agree to Combine Updated: 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 world's biggest carrier. The boards of both companies gave the deal the go-ahead Monday. The announcement could spur... Read More
Ford Workers Face Buyout Decisions Published: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 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 will help the automaker's bottom line, according to Ford executives. The company won't say how many workers it wants to... Read More
`No Country' Dominates Weekend Awards Updated: 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 celebrating, and "No Country for Old Men" emerged as the movie to beat at the Academy Awards. Only one winner at the... Read More
Globes Speed by As Strike Lingers On Updated: 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 sight and no real fun for fans of show business glitz. The Golden Globes on Sunday honored such films as the tragic... Read More
Hollywood Writers Reject Award Shows Updated: 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, will not allow its members to write for the Golden Globes on Jan. 13 nor the Academy Awards on Feb. 24. The group's... Read More
Ford, UAW Reach Tentative Contract Deal Updated: 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 negotiations that has slashed wages and changed the way health care is provided to retirees. Ford said the deal, if... Read More
Goodyear Workers Return to Work Published: Tue, Jan 2, 2007 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 time to mend wounds with management. Jack Hefner, vice president of Steelworkers Local 2 in Akron, said Tuesday that... Read More
Dayton tire plant to close Updated: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 Tire company Bridgestone/Firestone finalized plans Thursday to close its Dayton Tire plant in Oklahoma City by the end of the year, with the loss of more than 1,600 jobs. The company warned local employees in April that it may have to shutter the factory, which produces mostly 13-, 14-, and 15-inch... Read More
GM takes off: Most of city plant’s hourly workers took severance packages, transfers Updated: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 More than three-fourths of the hourly General Motors Corp. workers at Oklahoma City’s idled factory have accepted attrition packages or transfers from the struggling automaker, according to preliminary figures. GM offers financing plan on 2006 models The company said 1,533 out of 2,364 eligible... Read More
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