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During the Nazi’s 1930’s rampage through Germany’s cultural heritage, Herman Goering would say, “Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!” The Nazis were no better than a German Sheppard and damned proud of it. Not terribly different from the Nazis, who made no pretence of caring about their nation’s cultural heritage, America’s labor unions couldn’t care less about whether classical music in America lives or dies. They want what they want and they want it now. This toxic greed has combined with the “Rich White guilt” of the people who run America’s concert music halls to...

NYC transit union authorizes subway strike if no contract deal reached next week By DESMOND BUTLER (Associated Press Writer) From Associated Press December 10, 2005 11:56 PM EST NEW YORK - New York City transit workers voted Saturday to authorize a strike that could shut down bus and subway service at the height of the holiday shopping season. Thousands of members of Transport Workers Local 100 voted unanimously to authorize their leaders to call a walkout if the union and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority can't agree on a new contract by midnight Thursday, when the current contract expires. MTA officials...

Associated Press Employees to Vote on Airline Concessions Saturday April 19, 1:09 am ET By David Koenig, AP Business Writer Flight Attendants to Vote Again on American Airlines Concessions, Citing Executive Bonuses DALLAS (AP) -- Enraged by an American Airlines plan to give bonuses to top executives, the flight attendants' union said late Friday it would scrap results of a vote that approved concessions the company says it needs to stay out of bankruptcy. The union said it plans to schedule a new vote. The company said Friday that executives had decided not to accept the bonuses, which were disclosed...

<p>FORT WORTH, Texas (CNN) -- Outraged by news that troubled American Airlines had planned to give its executives bonuses, flight attendants rescinded their approval of wage cuts and plan to vote again, a union official said late Friday.</p> <p>No date for the new vote was set. Wednesday, the flight attendants agreed to more than $10 billion in wage concessions over six years. The airline had said it would file for bankruptcy protection if the union did not approve the cuts.</p>

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Norwalk, Conn.-based Olin Corp. today said it is considering permanently closing its local brass plant that employs 200 workers pending discussions with union officials. Representatives of United Steelworkers Local 494 were contacted this morning, company spokesman Richard E. Koch said. He added the company does not have a timetable for when a final decision will be made. The plant, at 1800 S. Holt Road, was idled last fall because of falling demand from the automotive, technology and telecommunications industries. About 200 workers were laid off then, following 165 employees who were...

<p>CHICAGO (AP) -- United Airlines' unions met with their advisers Monday to review the bankrupt carrier's proposal for severe cuts, which one union said would more than double the previous targeted concessions.</p> <p>The flight attendants' union told its members that at the demand of the lenders who are enabling United to keep flying in bankruptcy, the carrier is seeking to slash labor costs by $2.4 billion annually within the next two months. That compares with approximately $1 billion in yearly cuts that unions agreed to this fall as part of United's failed bid for a government loan guarantee.</p>

NEW YORK -- Transit and union negotiators reached a tentative agreement Monday that would spare the nation's largest city a strike shutting down subways and buses and stranding 7 million daily riders, a spokesman for the union said. Union spokesman Chris Fleming would not confirm details of the deal, but government sources familiar with the talks said it would include a lump-sum payment to workers in the first year, with 2 percent to 3 percent raises in each of the next two years tied to productivity. The lump sum would be equivalent to just under 2 percent, according to the...

Transit Talks Continue Past Midnight Deadline DECEMBER 16TH, 2002 There will be no transit strike - at least not yet. With the morning plans of millions of commuters hanging in the balance, the MTA and New York City's transit workers are negotiating past the midnight hour in a last-ditch effort to avert a mass transit strike that could cripple the city at the height of the holiday season. Ed Watt, the secretary/treasurer of Transit Workers Union Local 100, announced at midnight that negotiators had made sufficient progess to continue their efforts past the midnight deadline. The progress, said Watt, had...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Employees at Thomson Multimedia were among the highest paid production workers in the region. An unskilled laborer could earn close to $20 an hour after a few decades in the Keystone Industrial Park facility. An employee willing to work overtime could earn over $1,000 a week at Thomson. The closure of the plant in July 2001 was a traumatic blow to the 1,100 employees. Thomson moved television tube production to its new plant in Mexicali, Mexico. Many of those local workers are finishing state-funded training this month. The Sunday Times tracked...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. CHICAGO - Just weeks after resolving a labor dispute that threatened to shutter all 113 of its stores, the Dominick's supermarket chain fired 500 of its nearly 13,000 workers. A company spokeswoman blamed sluggish sales. Dominick's also said it would close a struggling store in East Chicago in January. Spokeswoman Wynona Redmond declined to comment on speculation that as many as 20 stores might be closed after the holidays. "We've announced 500 layoffs and one closure only," Redmond said. The workers were fired Thursday, Redmond said. Pleasanton, Calif.-based grocery giant Safeway...