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“The Fatigue Factor
Everyone and everything involved with flying—pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, and even the planes themselves—are exhausted. Once again, cost cutting is the culprit. After years of airline budget cuts and downsizing, the surviving flight crews and mechanics work longer hours than ever. Fatigue and jet lag mean that employees aren't operating at peak efficiency. And aircraft that used to fly just a few hours a day now operate for 12 or even 16 hours a day, leaving little ground time for repairs.”
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Where is unionism working?
Three unions leading the way:
Writers Guild of America West keeps the strike pressure on (does not cancel the strike like AFA international did with CHAOS at NWA) and looks close to a deal. No caving here: http://www.wga.org/
California Nurses Association is educating and fighting for America’s healthcare after having all of their members see the movie SICKO for free: http://ga1.org/campaign/cheneycare
SEIU fighting back with their Hotel Workers campaign to get workers above poverty levels: http://www.hotelworkersrising.com/
Some good general labor sites:
http://www.labornet.org/
http://www.laborradio.org/
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php
http://www.labornotes.org/
Labor History (find out what real unionists did):
http://www.labor-studies.org/
Service not Servitude
The Pullman Porters – the first black union and they were in the service industry like us, but they had a strategy and knew how to affect politics (they helped start the civil rights movement): http://www.aphiliprandolphmuseum.com/evo_history4.html
Union Democracy: http://www.uniondemocracy.org/index.htm
(Check out The LMRDA and the Union Members' Bill of Rights http://www.uniondemocracy.org/Legal/lmrda.htm)
Writers Guild of America West keeps the strike pressure on (does not cancel the strike like AFA international did with CHAOS at NWA) and looks close to a deal. No caving here: http://www.wga.org/
California Nurses Association is educating and fighting for America’s healthcare after having all of their members see the movie SICKO for free: http://ga1.org/campaign/cheneycare
SEIU fighting back with their Hotel Workers campaign to get workers above poverty levels: http://www.hotelworkersrising.com/
Some good general labor sites:
http://www.labornet.org/
http://www.laborradio.org/
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php
http://www.labornotes.org/
Labor History (find out what real unionists did):
http://www.labor-studies.org/
Service not Servitude
The Pullman Porters – the first black union and they were in the service industry like us, but they had a strategy and knew how to affect politics (they helped start the civil rights movement): http://www.aphiliprandolphmuseum.com/evo_history4.html
Union Democracy: http://www.uniondemocracy.org/index.htm
(Check out The LMRDA and the Union Members' Bill of Rights http://www.uniondemocracy.org/Legal/lmrda.htm)