Articles tagged “strikes”

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The labor movement has organized most of its strikes this year as localized, short-duration walkouts.

About 40,000 hotel workers have contracts expiring over the next year. So these few days of strikes might just be a preview of coming attractions at several dozen hotels.

Without a new contract, American Airlines flight attendants say they are preparing to potentially strike.

Train and air services throughout France will be disrupted on Tuesday by a nationwide strike against pension reforms, French authorities said on Sunday.  

The Lufthansa Group cannot catch a break. Pilots at its budget subsidiary, Eurowings, will go on strike Thursday unless a last minute deal on wages can be reached.

Scandinavian airline SAS and its pilot unions reached a deal late on Monday that ended a 15-day strike.

With offices vacant again due to a crippling week-long rail strike, and airports under pressure, travel is suffering a setback, particularly business travel. In public relations terms, the UK should be in crisis management mode.

Lufthansa will be forced to find another way to work towards higher profits than a two-year pay freeze and longer hours for employees -- unless it fancies a series of labor outburst and customer cancellations.

The gap between what the unions are looking for and AIG is offering is so wide that the likelihood of a compromise before the potential strike date of February 18th seems extremely slim.