Posts tagged labor strike
Southwest Airlines strikes new deals with flight attendants, mechanics unions
June 6, 2023 // The Dallas-based airline announced this weekend that it has reached agreements in principle with unions representing its flight attendants and its mechanics. They are the seventh and eighth agreements Southwest has reached with its union partners since October 2022.
The never-ending strike
January 6, 2023 // The average strike lasts just over 40 days, according to Bloomberg Law. But some last much longer. In Brookwood, Alabama, coal miners have been on strike for over 600 days, and they don't have any intention of backing down anytime soon. Today, Stephan Bisaha of the Gulf States Newsroom joins us to explain how global macroeconomic forces can converge to keep a labor strike going for so long, and what it takes to sustain it.