Airline Plan Suggests No Pilot Privacy
Pilots would lose privacy protection for health records and airlines would need insurance when the employees lose their license under a proposal from the French air-safety agency that investigated the deliberate crash of a Germanwings passenger jet into a mountainside. Authorities should re-examine how pilot health is monitored and assessed, and consider forcing medical practitioners to share any concerns with airlines in instances...
Dartmouth Labor Union Elects Chief
Hanover — Dartmouth College’s labor union, Service Employees International Union Local 560, replaced its late president with his right-hand man in an election on Thursday. Local 560 Vice President Christopher Peck won a four-way race to succeed Earl Sweet, who died in January after three decades of service. Peck outpaced his closest challenger, Scott Hunt, by an 80-vote margin, with two other candidates, Seth Nelson and Joanne Norton,...
Obama Preps Final State Of the Union
Washington — President Obama will deliver his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night to a nation whose economy is far sturdier than it was when he took office in 2009. Yet as 2016 begins, the stout job market is accompanied by tepid economic growth and stubbornly flat wages. More broadly, two things are on the rise, to the president’s dismay: global temperatures and Americans’ concerns about terrorism. A snapshot of the...
Hanover Co-op Settles With Labor Board and Union
Lebanon — The Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society has made a no-fault settlement with the National Labor Relations Board and the Massachusetts-based UFCW 1459 over a charge that the Co-op impeded workers’ efforts to unionize at the Lebanon Food Store. The resolution, dated Sept. 17, calls for changes to employee policies and the erasure of disciplinary marks against employees who supported a push to organize. The move to form a union...
No Union Mines Left Where Labor Wars Once Raged
Harlan, Ky. — Kentucky coal miners bled and died to unionize. Their workplaces became war zones, and gun battles once punctuated union protests. In past decades, organizers have been beaten, stabbed and shot while seeking better pay and safer conditions deep underground. But more recently the United Mine Workers in Kentucky have been in retreat, dwindling like the black seams of coal in the Appalachian mountains. And now the last...
