Labor Unions

Look for the Return of the Twinkie in July

It's a tale filled with corporate greed, union strikes and cream filling. But no matter how much it may appear that things have gone over an edge into a fiery pit below, there is one thing that we can rest of assured of: The American snack industry will always rise again. See also: Was Hostess' Dea ... More >>

Dallas is Adding More Good Jobs than Anywhere Else

Five months ago, Dallas didn't even register on Forbes rundown of U.S. metro areas with the rosiest employment prospects, losing out to San Jose and Austin but also to Birmingham, Charleston, and Lakeland, Florida. That was a prediction based on a survey of employers' hiring predictions. Now that t ... More >>

Unions May Be Kidding Themselves by Banking on Getting Jobs Back After Hostess Liquidation

The bakers union's new president has finally broken his silence following the collapse of Irving-based Hostess, baker of Wonder Bread and Twinkies. It was the bakers, after all, who largely sat out the attempted restructuring in a New York federal bankruptcy court, then dynamited the negotiations by ... More >>

Was Hostess' Death a Murder, Suicide or Natural Causes?

Or was it all three?

Hostess: Dead by Murder, Suicide, or Natural Causes? Uh ... Yes?

In this week's cover story, we examine the demise of Irving-based Hostess, purveyor of Wonder Bread, Ho Hos, Twinkies and Ding Dongs -- basically all the stuff you should never put in your body. These days, pretty much everything is political, even the fate of snack food. Can blame for the company' ... More >>

Hostess Was Plotting Twinkie Sell-Off Months Before Workers Struck

In another blow to the unions-killed-the-Twinkie-thereby-depriving-future-generations-of-a-real-American-childhood storyline -- if that wasn't already enough of a laughable oversimplification -- the Morning News is reporting that Hostess was actually preparing for liquidation more than a year before ... More >>

Romney's Lies to Auto Workers Show He Doesn't Get the Modern World

So here we are at the door to election day. In the nation it all comes down to Ohio. In Ohio it all comes down to the auto industry. And Mitt Romney is betting his marbles on TV ads that say he's the one who wanted to save the industry and President Obama's the one shipping jobs to China. Man. As ... More >>

Dallas Teachers Are Mad They Won't Get Paid Extra for Parent Conferences. Should They?

Dallas ISD's teachers are feeling beaten down, their union rep told me this morning: "Physically, emotionally and financially." The latest blow, she said: no longer getting paid for time they spend at after-school conferences with parents. The News' Matthew Haag had the story last night: DISD teach ... More >>

Wal-Mart Associates in Dallas Walk Off Job, Protest Suckiness of Working at Wal-Mart

Last week, workers at Wal-Mart stores in Southern California walked off the job in what was, per Salon, the first multi-store strike in the retail giant's history. Today, the protest made its way to Dallas. Workers at nine area Wal-Mart stores walked off the job this morning to demand higher wages ... More >>

Time for Occupy Dallas to Push Back

We can't roll over for DPD's goon-squad tactics.

This Ain't Detroit: Ron Natinsky Goes After Mike Rawlings For His Union Endorsements

Via.Speaking of...too early? No. Never.​It'll be a shame to see this mayoral campaign season come to an end a week from Saturday now that it's getting so...campaigny. Take, for instance, this email that just arrived in the in-box with the all-caps subject header: "RAWLINGS PLEDGES TO SUPPORT THE R ... More >>

Yeah, Because It'd Be Just Awful If Dallas Were More Like Chicago or Detroit

​Wilonsky just knows how to push my Yankee carpetbagger buttons. He keeps calling to jab me about the charges that Dallas mayoral candidates Ron Natinsky and Mike Rawlings are trading today, each one accusing the other of wanting to make Dallas like Chicago or Detroit. Being a native of that end o ... More >>

Southwest's Flight Attendants Cheer TSA's Move to Let 'Em Through Without Scan, Pat-Down

​Seems like it was only Friday that Transport Workers Union Local 556 -- which reps Southwest Airlines's 9,400 flight attendants -- was sending Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John J. Pistole that note letting the officials know they most certainly did not app ... More >>

Southwest's Flight Attendants Also Don't Much Care For TSA's New Screening Procedures

​Southwest Airlines's 9,400 flight attendants just sent word: They don't wanna be scanned. And they don't wanna be gate-raped.  That's the gist of the missive Transport Workers Union Local 556 President Thom McDaniel sent to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrato ... More >>

A Strike at New York Mott's Plant to Become Protests at DFW Grocery Stores Starting Today

​On May 23, workers at the Mott's plant in Williamson, New York, went on strike -- the company's owner, Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group, is demanding workers take a $1.50-an-hour pay cut and a reduction in benefits. Say union reps, "With unemployment rates high in the Williamson area, Mott's c ... More >>

Weeks After West Dallas School Reform Announcement, DISD Board's Ready for Details

DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa​Superintendent Michael Hinojosa drew a roomful of huzzahs two weeks ago when he announced that DISD was getting involved in a new effort for school reform in West Dallas. A handful of DISD trustees were among the cheering crowd, including Lew Blackburn and boar ... More >>

The United States Postal Service Swears It's Not Shutting Down the Dallas Main Post Office

After the jump you'll find a copy of a letter sent on July 10 "to the citizens of Dallas, TX" by the local chapter of the American Postal Workers Union, in which union president Larry Crawford warns of the United States Postal Service's plan to close the Dallas Main Post Office on I-30, just west of ... More >>

Sleep Recession

Slip into something more comfortable at the Majestic

Union Puts the Squeeze on Tax Breaks

The only thing worse than giving developers subsidies is a union’s threat to stop the giveaways

Law Enforcement Labor Reps Lambast Sheriff Valdez for Playing Politics

Latino Vote Is No Slam Dunk for Hillary Clinton, Not in Texas

Who's the Boss?

Ground Meat

Native-born and immigrant both get bled at Swift's beef plant

Mostly Air

Plus: Sowing Old Seeds

Now's the Time

Stereo on Strike gets in the Christmas spirit

Shut Out

New arena to union: So long, it's been good to know you

Union Labeled

Contract mail drivers win a long struggle to unionize

Long Haul

Dirty tricks or no, Teamsters say they won't stop their efforts to organize at Saia trucking

Strange bedfellows

National union leaders do the math and switch their position on immigration

Divided they stand

A pack of unions struggle for the right to represent DISD workers

Air homophobia

A gay-bashing pilot prompts a change at Southwest Airlines

Make 'em pay

Dallas activists fight
for a living wage from city contractors

Marshal law

Peace officers go to war in the city marshal's office

The profit speaks

Striking machinists won't buckle under to greedy Boeing bosses

BeloWatch

Pawns and dreamers

Being a baseball scab won't be easy