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TRANSPORT JOBS * USA - Mediation Board Changes Union Vote Rule
Airline group says it will take NMB shift on rail, airline rule to court
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by R.G. Edmonson -May 10, 2010: -- In a victory for labor attempts to organize transportation workers, the National Mediation Board said it will now determine a majority in a unionization election based on the votes cast and no longer base the results on a company’s entire workforce... The new rule on railroad and airline employees could have an impact on efforts to organize workers at FedEx, where labor has targeted non-union express workers... The rule could also affect employees at Delta Air Lines and JetBlue, said Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO... The NMB has so far counted all employees of a company among votes in an organization effort, tallying those not casting ballots as votes against the unionization... The Air Transport Association said Monday it would seek judicial review of the NMB’s rule...* Trucking Leads April Gains in Transport Jobs. Sector has first back-to-back employment increases in nearly a year
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online John D. Boyd -May 7, 2010: -- The U.S. trucking industry added nearly 10,000 jobs in April and has added about 16,000 since February, as part of a broader recovery in freight sector employment showing up in payroll surveys by the Labor Department... Warehousing and courier employment shrank some, so the department’s broad grouping of various transportation and warehouse jobs fell to 4.099 million in April from 4.106 million in March. But all four direct transport modes added to their payrolls in April... Still, the latest report shows trucking jobs growing for two months straight for the first time since May and June 2009, when freight activity began to bounce off the recession lows of that spring. Since then, however, trucking jobs mostly slid again until now...Labels: trucking jobs
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