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CHICAGO—Stagnant pay, staff shortages, and erratic scheduling by their airline bosses forced thousands of pilots at two of the nation’s four big passenger airlines—American and Southwest—to overwhelming authorize their union boards to call strikes.
UPPER DARBY, Pa.—The Philadelphia mayor’s race wasn’t the only key contest Pennsylvania voters decided on May 16. Democrat Heather Boyd’s win in a special election for an open State House seat, with 60% of the vote to Republican Katie Ford’s 39%, ensured progressives kept control of that c...
NEW YORK—Viewers tuning in next month to the Tony Awards—Broadway’s yearly big bash—prepare yourselves. In a classic tradeoff averting disaster, the show will go on. There’ll be no picketing scriptwriters out front. But awardees must wing it. No scripts, by them or anyone else.
PHILADELPHIA—Progressive forces went one-for-two in Democratic primary races for top municipal jobs in Pennsylvania: Helen Gym lost the top tilt, for the Philadelphia mayoralty, to more-moderate and more-establishment Cherelle Parker. But progressive State Rep.
FORT VALLEY, Ga.--In a big win for the Steelworkers and a big break in the normally union-hostile South, workers at the Blue Bird school bus company plant in rural Fort Valley, Ga., voted for the union on May 12, 697-435.