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"Complex and closely watched, the U.S. airline industry has long been a stronghold of union labor. Airline unions function as democracies that organize strikes, raise concern about important safety issues, and back mergers that would not move forward without their support. They use their power to improve workers' lives and to enhance safety, which can be threatened by corporate over-commitment to ensuring profits. This book draws from the experience of Miami Herald's former airlines reporter, Ted Reed, who offers an insider's view of the unions' victories, losses, and larger-than-life leaders. From the beginning of his career in the late 1980s, it was evident that covering the airline industry also meant covering the labor unions that represented nearly every group of employees. His 30 years of experience have spanned multiple major strikes and other union events, and the stories he shares are critical to understanding the role of labor organization in the airline industry"--
List of contents
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
¿1.¿A Newspaper Delivery Girl Makes News
¿2.¿This Stewardess Likes to Stir Things Up
¿3.¿This Union Has Always Punched Above Its Weight
¿4.¿The World Discovers Sara Nelson
¿5.¿Sara Saves the Airline Industry
¿6.¿Sara Fights Goliath at Amazon
¿7.¿She Wanted to Work for Hillary Clinton: Maybe She Did Better
¿8.¿In 2024, Flight Attendants Unite, UAW Helps and Sara Looks Ahead
¿9.¿Child of Brooklyn
10.¿Rock Bottom at Rikers
11.¿"The transit authority did not give a rat's ass"
12.¿Mike Quill and the Strike Culture of TWU Local 100
13.¿Who If Anybody Won the 2005 New York Subway Strike?
14.¿Battling New York's Organic Green Tea-Drinking, Neo-Liberal Hipsters
15.¿Transit Union Brings Tough Tactics to the Airline Industry
16.¿Jason Ambrosi Moves to the Left Seat
17.¿How the Allied Pilots Association Made the World Safer
18.¿How ALPA Fights for Airline Safety
19.¿U.S. Airways Leads the Parade to Bankruptcy
20.¿Saying No Is Easy; the Hardest Thing Is Getting to Yes
21.¿How Labor Enabled the American-U.S. Airways Merger
22.¿From a Freedom Flight to the Airline of the Stars
23.¿Sito Takes a Seat at the Table
24.¿"Going into a war zone, you're not giggling"
25.¿Flight Attendant Leader Treasures Her Dad's Union Pins
26.¿The Not So Strange Case of Laura Glading
27.¿Unions Big and Small Find Spots in the Airline Industry
28.¿Justice for Janitors Cleans Up at Airports
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Former Miami Herald reporter, Ted Reed is a business and labor writer. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
