About 20 members of the Families of Continental Flight 3407 descended on the Capitol today, intent on pressuring a Tennessee senator to abandon his plans to stop a bill filled with aviation safety measures from coming up for a vote.
Irate families of victims of a plane crash last year near Buffalo, N.Y., are blaming Sen. Bob Corker's intervention on behalf of FedEx for a potential delay in passing higher safety standards in an FAA reauthorization bill.
A Tennessee senator is standing in the way of aviation safety legislation being pushed by the Families of Continental Flight 3407, likely delaying consideration of the measure until next week at the earliest.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Now that the merger between Delta and Northwest is complete, other airlines are under the spotlight for potential consolidation.
By an overwhelming margin, nearly 8,000 fleet service workers at Continental Airlines at airports across the country have voted to join the Teamsters, Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa announced Friday. See photos of CAL workers celebrating our victory.
Alerted by a brake warning light in the cockpit, the captain on a U.S. airline flight last August warned passengers he was making an emergency landing and called for firetrucks to be standing by.
The Teamsters Airline Division said today that it has reached a tentative agreement for a first contract on Thursday with Flight Options, LLC, the Cleveland-based provider of luxury business jet fractional ownership and charter programs. Union members will vote on the proposed contract in March.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters petitioned the National Mediation Board (NMB) today for their assistance in concluding negotiations between Horizon Air pilots, Horizon and parent holding company Alaska Air Group.
The negotiating committee convened on January 11, 2010 at the offices of Local 19, in Houston to prepare for the week’s meetings. Joint meetings were held on January 12th, 13th and 14th. It was a productive week, with a tentative agreement on Article 5, Filling of Vacancies, as well as discussions and some counter proposals from both sides on three other contract articles.
In the wake of a massive earthquake that struck the island nation of Haiti on January 12, General President Jim Hoffa is urging Teamsters everywhere to donate to the Teamsters Disaster Relief Fund.
