Senate: Airport screeners can unionize
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The Senate voted Tuesday to give 45,000 airport screeners the same union rights as other public safety officers, despite vigorous opposition by Republicans and a veto threat from the White House.
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Congressional Democrats on Monday dropped their demand for union bargaining rights for airport screeners, hoping to revive anti-terrorism legislation that had stalled because of a presidential veto threat.
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Casino employees will be able to hold caucuses at work  after a federal judge ruled the Democratic Party can set up "at-large" precincts for the Nevada contest on the Las Vegas strip Saturday. The state teachers union challenged the plan, saying it would give employees on the strip an unfair advantage. The culinary workers union -- which supports Sen. Barack Obama -- fired back, saying the teachers wanted to give the edge to Sen. Hillary Clinton.
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In the most contentious clash between business and labor groups of the new Congress, the House yesterday passed legislation that would make it easier for workers to organize unions -- a measure that President Bush has promised to veto and that Senate Republican leaders have vowed to filibuster.
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The government announced Tuesday that it will make it easier for airports to replace federal baggage and passenger screeners with privately employed workers.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The Association of Flight Attendants will vote later Tuesday on a proposal to authorize a nationwide strike as tensions escalate between financially troubled airlines and their employees over drastic cost-saving measures.
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Flight attendants at bankrupt US  Airways Group Inc. UAIRQ.OB have authorized their union to  authorize a strike should a federal court permit airline  management to void their contract, the Association of Flight  Attendants said on Monday.
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NEW YORK : The leaders of the largest US flight attendants&#39; union voted to authorize strike action by its members, in response to threats from bankrupt US carriers to unilaterally scrap labour contracts.
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President Bush and his Senate allies will kill a Sept. 11 antiterror bill if Congress sends it to the White House with a provision to let airport screeners unionize
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Flight attendants at US Airways Monday voted to strike if the carrier throws out a labor contract in order to secure $150 million in job, wage and benefit reductions.
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A Senate committee voted Thursday to give airport screeners the collective bargaining and whistleblower protection rights that most other federal employees have.
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The United Food and Commercial Workers endorsed Senator Barack Obama on Thursday, while members of another giant, the Service Employees International Union, were casting votes Thursday night.
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Unions seeking to make employers recognize them without secret-ballot elections are portraying a test vote in the Senate as only an early skirmish in their drive to make it easier to get a better foothold in workplaces.
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The nation's largest flight attendants union said yesterday it would hold strike authorization votes at four major airlines, accusing the industry of using the bankruptcy process to cut workers' pay and other benefits.
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Business & money: Airports owner appeals to unions in hope of averting walkouts that would ground more than 1.3 million passengers next month
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The 51-46 roll call by which the Senate voted Tuesday to give 45,000 airport screeners the same union rights as border patrol, customs and immigration agents.
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If you&#39;re traveling out of BWI Airport this month, you should be wondering about the threat of a strike by flight attendants affecting your plans.