Tag: Labor unions

1-day NYC health care workers’ walkout averted

Washington Examiner · July 21, 2014 4:20 pm

Anthony Simon, general chairman of the United Transportation Union, left, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Thomas Prendergast, right, shake hands in front of Gov. Andrew Cuomo after a tentative labor agreement was reached at Cuomo's office in New York on Thursday, July 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Strike threat plays to Cuomo’s image as pragmatist

DAVID KLEPPERRACHELLE BLIDNER · July 18, 2014 1:50 pm

Anthony Simon, general chairman of the United Transportation Union, left, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Thomas Prendergast, right, shake hands in front of Gov. Andrew Cuomo after a tentative labor agreement was reached at Cuomo's office in New York on Thursday, July 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Strike by NY commuter rail workers averted

FRANK ELTMANRACHELLE BLIDNER · July 18, 2014 1:29 am

Railroad deal relief for vacation-bound NY mayor

Jennifer Peltz · July 17, 2014 10:43 pm

Anthony Simon, left, lead union negotiator for Long Island Rail Road Union, and union representative Dean Devita, speak during a news conference Wednesday, July 16, 2014, in New York. Shortly after Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an appeal Wednesday for the sides to resume talking, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the Long Island Rail Road, invited union negotiators to resume talks and union officials accepted. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Union: We’ll keep talking to avoid NY rail strike

FRANK ELTMANRACHELLE BLIDNER · July 17, 2014 2:56 am

Cuomo: Rail strike would hold commuters ‘hostage’

David Klepper · July 16, 2014 8:56 pm

Pedestrians wait to ride a train at Jamaica station on the Long Island Rail Road Tuesday, July 15, 2014, in New York. Prospects of a strike which the unions said they were planning at 12:01 a.m. next Sunday, would affect 300,000 daily riders who travel in and out of New York City from Long Island. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Anxiety grows as possible NY rail strike nears

FRANK ELTMANRACHELLE BLIDNER · July 15, 2014 7:48 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2012 file photo, a train makes its way to the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Jamaica Station in the Queens borough of New York. Unions negotiating with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said Monday, July 14, 2014, that talks aimed at avoiding a walkout at the LIRR, the nation's largest commuter railroad, have collapsed. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

MTA head cites wide gulf in LIRR contract talks

RACHELLE BLIDNERFRANK ELTMAN · July 14, 2014 10:10 pm

FILE - In this July 12, 2013, photo, employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., work on the assembly of a Passat sedan. Volkswagen on Monday, July 14, 2014 said it will build a new seven-passenger SUV at the Chattanooga factory, adding about 2,000 jobs. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, File)

VW to build new SUV in Tennessee, add 2,000 jobs

ERIK SCHELZIGTOM KRISHER · July 14, 2014 9:46 pm

Ulrich Hackenberg, Volkswagen Director of Produce Development for Power Trains, stands next to the Volkswagen CrossBlue SUV concept vehicle during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Volkswagen’s not waiting around for Big Labor

Sean Higgins · July 14, 2014 8:57 pm

Bombardier union at Ontario plant goes on strike

Washington Examiner · July 14, 2014 7:53 pm

Workers assemble Volkswagen Passat sedans at the German automaker's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP/ Erik Schelzig)

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Volkswagen to expand Chattanooga plant

Sean Higgins · July 14, 2014 3:55 pm