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Labor Dept. Seeking To Expand Disclosure Rules For Unions' Finances

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2002, P. 16

Labor Department officials said yesterday that they would propose tougher reporting and disclosure requirements for the nation's labor unions on Monday, a move some union officials say is intended to punish labor.

Make-Or-Break Exams Grow, But Big Study Doubts Value

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2002, P. 1

Rigorous testing that decides whether students graduate, teachers win bonuses and schools are shuttered, an approach already in place in more than half the nation, does little to improve achievement and may actually worsen academic performance and… More

M.T.A. Says Union Is Exaggerating Wage And Benefit Gains

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2002, P. 4

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority accused the transit workers' union yesterday of spinning the amount of wage and benefit increases in the new labor agreement and argued that the increases were less than union officials say.

Trust Fund Divides Pilots From Other United Unions

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2002, P. 1

Of all United Airlines' employees, the pilots seem to have lost the most in the airline's bankruptcy filing. Highest paid among United's nonmanagement employees, the pilots pushed worker-ownership the hardest and received the biggest stake in the… More

United May Ask Court To Void Union Contracts

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2002, P. 7

United Airlines said yesterday that if it did not reach agreements on concessions from its unions soon, it would ask a bankruptcy judge on Dec. 26 to start a process that could allow the company to void its union contracts.

The Zero-Sum Game

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2002, P. 1

In a week of bitter transit talks over money and power, the last and biggest obstacle that negotiators cleared last night was about neither. It was about an abstraction: the meaning of zero.

Executive Life

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2002, P. 12

THERE are many chief executives that unions love to hate. Think of Jeffrey C. Barbakow of the hospital chain Tenet Healthcare, who cashed in $111 million in stock options this year but whose unionized workers complained of short staffing and jobs… More

Judge Orders Transit Workers Not To Strike

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2002, P. 1

A State Supreme Court justice in Brooklyn issued an injunction last night that bars the city's transit workers from striking, while union leaders, the mayor and the governor worked to ease the sharp tensions surrounding the contract talks.

Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: Union Assails Deputy Mayor

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2002, P. 6

The union that represents city firefighters has asked Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to distance himself from remarks by his deputy mayor, who described the Fire Department as fighting fires only 5 percent of the time and ''hanging around doing… More

Angry Workers And Militant Union Leaders Vs. Cash-Poor M.T.A.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2002, P. 4

Invariably, union contract talks begin with bluff and bluster and outlandish demands that both sides know they will have to compromise on. Despite such sharp differences early on, 98 percent of contract disputes reach a settlement without a… More

Union Lowers Its Demands As M.T.A. Plans To Request Injunction Against Strike

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2002, P. 4

Showing flexibility for the first time, the transit workers' union lowered its wage demands yesterday, while transit officials said they would go to state court this morning to seek an injunction to bar any strike.

Hall Includes Marvin Miller On Its Ballot

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2002, P. 1

A man who has made probably the greatest impact on Major League Baseball while receiving the least recognition from the Hall of Fame is, for the first time, in position to have that paradox rectified.

An Uncooperative Season

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2002, P. 4

In 1980, the city's 33,000 transit workers walked out, and much of the rest of the city walked to work, during a stretch of mostly temperate and beautiful April days.

37 Black Boxes Labeled 'Fear' Cause Commotion In The Subway

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2002, P. 1

There were 37 cardboard boxes in all -- some spray-painted black, some wrapped in black electrical tape, all of them inscribed in white block lettering with a single word: fear.

22 Years After The Last Transit Strike, Familiar Doldrums And Grievances

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2002, P. 5

Commercials for Calvin Klein jeans and the mystery of who shot J. R. might seem like relics from the ancient past. But in many ways, the gulf between 1980 and today is not so wide.