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- Airline mechanics choose Teamsters
- SFO -- Fearing the sale of their maintenance division and possible layoffs, United Airlines mechanics have voted to change unions and bring in the Teamsters. More than 3,000 mechanics at United's biggest maintenance base at San Francisco International Airport joined the airline's mechanics across the country and...
- Research articles 2008-04-03
- FAA looks at suspect mechanics
- WASHINGTON -- The Federal Aviation Administration is struggling to resolve 75 of an initial 2,000 cases in which students are suspected of obtaining fraudulent aviation mechanic certificates that helped them secure potentially sensitive jobs throughout the aviation industry. All but a "handful" have been located, FAA...
- Research articles 2008-04-03
- United grounds all Boeing 777s
- United Airlines on Wednesday abruptly grounded all its Boeing 777 jets and canceled dozens of flights in the USA and abroad after discovering that mechanics failed to test a fire-suppression device as required. The disruption was at least the fourth time in three weeks that a...
- Research articles 2008-04-03
- Airline mechanics union switches to Teamsters
- SFO -- Fearing the sale of their maintenance division and possible layoffs, United Airlines mechanics have voted to change unions and bring in the Teamsters. More than 3,000 mechanics at United's biggest maintenance base at San Francisco International Airport joined the airline's mechanics across the country and...
- Research articles 2008-04-02
- a more tempting science
- BOWING TO STUDENT DEMANDS, DUKE REVAMPS PHYSICS FOR A BETTER FIT WITHIN ENGINEERING. Slogans on college students' T-shirts can be mystifying-inside jokes about beer, sports or naked-co-ed-whatever. But one T-shirt worn at Duke University left no doubt as to its meaning: "Physics Sucks." It proclaimed for all to...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Teamsters: AMFA Deceives on Job Loss Claims
- To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORS Contact: Leslie Miller of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, +1-202-624-8734, lmiller@teamster.org Union Seeks To Represent UAL Mechanics WASHINGTON, March 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Teamsters Union said Friday that the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association AMFA failed to protect mechanics jobs at United Airlines, Northwest Airlines and Alaska...
- Research articles 2008-03-14
- Teamsters to Fight UAL-Continental Merger Unless It Benefits Employees
- To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORS Contact: Leslie Miller of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, +1-202-624-8734, lmiller@teamster.org Union Represents Continental Mechanics, Seeks To Represent UAL Mechanics WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Teamsters union said Thursday it will oppose a merger between United Airlines and Continental Airlines unless such a deal benefits...
- Research articles 2008-02-28
- Mechanics wary of possible merger
- SFO -- With airline merger talks intensifying, the spotlight locally is on the Bay Area's dominant carrier, United Airlines. Operating nearly half the flights at San Francisco International Airport, United is said to be in negotiations with Continental Airlines about a marriage. The most...
- Research articles 2008-02-22
- Lebanon's forgotten children
- TRIPOLI, Lebanon AFP — It is early morning and eight-year-old Ibrahim Khodar Arja is already hard at work, his face and hands covered with dirt as he repairs a car at the mechanics shop where he works six days a week, 10 hours a day. Ibrahim should be at...
- Research articles 2008-02-04
- United Airlines mechanics face critical union vote
- SFO -- United Airlines mechanics will vote soon on whether to stay with their current union or be represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The mechanics, more than 3,000 of whom are employed at the United maintenance base at San Francisco International Airport, have been represented...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- Controllers Declare 'Staffing Emergency' in Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Southern California
- U.S. aviation labor unions are ratcheting up the volume as regards their labor unrest with the nation's air traffic controllers among the most vocal. The nation's controllers, suffering a 10 percent loss of their workforce in 2007, a record pace of new losses this year and worsening...
- Research articles 2008-01-14
- Rensselaer Researcher Named Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-8 January 2008-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Rensselaer Researcher Named Fellow of the American Academy of MechanicsC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08012008 Troy, N.Y. -- Jacob Fish, the Rosalind and John J. Redfern Chaired Professor of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...
- Research articles 2008-01-08
- Teamsters seeking nod from United mechanics
- CHICAGO -- The Teamsters sought the right Monday to represent United Airlines mechanics, filing a petition and predicting it will win an election to displace the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association in early 2008. The union, which already represents more than 40,000 airline employees, has been pushing for two...
- Research articles 2007-12-04
- Mechanics Tell United: Don't Outsource Mileage Plus, Aircraft Maintenance
- To: TRAVEL EDITORSContact: Galen Munroe of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, +1-202-624-6904 Airport Leafleting Alerts Flyers to Potential Dangers of Foreign Repair OperationsWASHINGTON, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Airline mechanics and supporters leafleted airports nationwide today, asking passengers to sign a petition urging United Airlines (UAL; NASDAQ: UAUA) to pull...
- Research articles 2007-11-21
- 2006-2007 ASME Fellows..., The
- Memis Acar Memis Acar has been a researcher and faculty member for 30 years. He has written over 120 journal and conference papers. He recieved over two million dollars in grant money from national and international sources. Acar has graduated eight Ph.D. students and currently advises six. He is a...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- The 2006-2007 ASME fellows ...(Memis Acar-Mark A. Kedzierski)
- Memis Acar [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Memis Acar has been a researcher and faculty member for 30 years. He has written over 120 journal and conference papers. He recieved over two million dollars in grant money from national and international sources. Acar has...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- Time to Flight
- Remodeling the avionics in hundreds of C-1 30s can't be done in a day, or a year. A manufacturer is working to speed things up. One of the basic tools used in the defense of the United States is the C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft. Flown by the...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Time to flight: remodeling the avionics in hundreds of C-130s can't be done in a day, or a year. A manufacturer is working to speed things up.
- One of the basic tools used in the defense of the United States is the C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft. Flown by the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps, the ruggedly built Hercules has been adapted for low-level attacks, close-in combat support, space capsule recovery,...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Sky-high careers: Jobs related to airlines
- Would you like to tour the world? Meet people on the go and keep them safe? Fix some of the world's largest and most complex machinery? If any of these scenarios sound exciting, a career in air travel might be for you. Air transportation is surging, which in turn should...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Oriental visit
- Chinese education chiefs are returning to a Tyneside college this week to look for new ways to manage training for automotive mechanics. The delegation from the Chinese Department of Education in Guangdong Province, are visiting Newcastle College to learn about vocational education and discuss a long term partnership. ...
- Research articles 2007-05-16
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