Articles tagged “labor”

The United States of No Vacation, Vacation Deprivation, Overwhelmed Americans, Work Martyrs — it's a problem by whatever name you use to describe it.

American Airlines Group CEO sounds as though he has turned into a labor activist. OK, not really, but he knows you can't have a successful company unless its corporate culture is healthy and its employees have a real stake in its well-being.

Republican lawmakers are gearing up to privatize air traffic control in the U.S., and the latest report gives them more ammunition for the upcoming battle.

As it turns out, performing the dirty work at a hotel paves the road to future career success for hospitality professionals.

We'd be interested in seeing where the remaining travel agents are concentrated and which specialties may be growing while others continue their decline.

Uber has made no secret of its dreams to one day replace human drivers with self-driving cars and the contempt it and its peers hold for the human factor shouldn't be discounted.

Sorenson couldn't be clearer that there will be a culling at Starwood corporate when the merger finally goes down.

In the consolidation game, Expedia's business model is to do heavy integration of the acquired companies' back-end platforms while retaining their brands and axing lots of employees to trim costs and boost the bottom line. Synergies for some, unemployment for others.

The end of the recession, while certainly a cause for celebration, has led hoteliers to become more cautious in their hiring and payroll processes as the embers of minimum wage fights grow brighter across the country and the impact of lower unemployment levels settles in.

Contractors let the airports save a few bucks, but it means they are less safe than they would be if workers had decent pay and benefits.