It’s the common thread among a host of companies lining up to feed on a rescue package.
airlines
Posted inEconomic Policy
It’s Time to Nationalize the Airlines
America’s most consumer-abusing and environment-degrading industry wants us to bail it out. Instead, we should take it over.
Posted inWorking in America
The Coronavirus Is Jump-Starting Union Organizing at Delta
Organizers started a union drive for flight attendants at Delta last November. Uncertainty about the pandemic is stoking a desire among workers for labor protections.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Boeing Is Basically a State-Funded Company
So why don’t we get a vote on its leadership?
Posted inWorking in America
American Airlines Sues to Make Travelers Sicker
Like other airlines, the company has just sued to overturn a paid sick day law. Nothing like more germs in the crowded skies.
Posted inEconomic Policy
When a National Champion Crashes and Burns
America needs a strong aircraft industry—and better regulation.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Make Passengers Safer? Boeing Just Made Shareholders Richer.
And none more so than their own executives
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Those Boeing Crashes and Donald Trump
It would be convenient to blame Trump’s deregulation. But the regulatory failure that ended in two tragic crashes was all too bipartisan.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Regulate Boeing? Naah. Assert Congressional Authority? Naah.
The do-nothings: McConnell and Chao, a Washington love story
Posted inWorking in America
Airport Workers to Launch Worldwide Protests for Higher Pay, Improved Working Conditions
Airlines everywhere report record profits, but airport contract workers haven’t seen healthy wage or benefit gains. Next week, those workers are joining together in North and South America, Europe, and Asia to bring attention to their plight.