Today on TAP: Why Europe’s mixed economy produces safer planes than America’s financialized capitalism
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Posted inTransportation
Boeing 737 MAX Incident a By-Product of Its Financial Mindset
The door plug that ripped off an Alaska Airlines plane only exists because of cost-cutting production techniques to facilitate cramming more passengers into the cabin.
Posted inTransportation
Department of Transportation Issues $140 Million Fine for 2022 Southwest Holiday Meltdown
The company will compensate customers who experience major delays or cancellations with travel vouchers, over and above offsetting all costs from the disruptions.
Posted inTransportation
The Second Wave of Airline Concentration
After the biggest companies used mergers a decade ago to dominate, now the lower-tier competitors are getting into the game. But they face headwinds from federal regulators.
Posted inWorking in America
Federal Agencies Can Disable Employer Debt TRAPs
Advocacy groups offer a road map for how agencies can use existing authority to ban contracts that force workers to pay employers if they leave their job.
Posted inWorking in America
Hard Times in the Back Yard
Bailed-out major airlines have outsourced ground work to subcontractors. Injuries and fatalities on the tarmac are taking off.
Posted inWorking in America
A Union of Their Own
How a culture of gross sexism in the airlines created America’s most militantly feminist union
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Labor’s Militant Creativity
Today on TAP: The UAW builds on a tactic—selective strikes—pioneered 30 years ago by the Flight Attendants.
Posted inTransportation
House FAA Reauthorization Bill Would Distort True Price of Airfare
The airline industry is using a must-pass bill to decouple government taxes, fees, and other surcharges from prices listed on airfare advertisements.
Posted inWorking in America
Labor’s Struggle With Anti-Monopoly
The split between two unions on the JetBlue-Spirit merger reveals the dilemma.
