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Dear fellow Labor Notes supporter, My name is Sara Nelson. As International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, I represent nearly 50,000 flight attendants at 17 airlines. A year ago, aviation was flying high. Flight attendants were looking forward to industry-wide bargaining after so much had been taken from us. Airlines were heralding record profits. One CEO said his airline would never lose money again. I was looking forward to seeing you at the biggest-ever Labor Notes Co...

Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, filed for a union election on November 20. Photo: Workers at Amazons Shakopee, Minnesota, fulfillment center walked out in a December 2018 protest. Credit: Fibonacci Blue, CC BY 2.0. The election is to determine whether a majority of the employees at the newly opened Amazon Fulfillment Center (BHM1) in Bessemer—a small of suburb of Birmingham, Alabama—want union representation. Amazon was represented at the hearing by the law firm Morgan Lewis—a firm t...

✕ ✕ Common migration routes from East Africa to Europe. Route information adapted from the International Organization for Migration, August 2015, by Colin Kinniburgh. Countries party to the Khartoum process are shaded in orange (note: not all shown on this map). ✕ At the 1936 International Conference of Business Cycle Institutes, sponsored by the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research, Vienna. Ludwig von Mises is seated in the ...

US Justice Department shuts down UAW corruption investigation, praises union “reforms” In a deal worked out between federal prosecutors and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, the Justice Department said it would wind up its more than five-year investigation of the UAW in exchange for a few token reforms. To date, the investigation has led to the conviction of 15 people, including former UAW Presidents Gary Jones and Dennis Williams as well as Joe Ashton, former UAW president for General M...