Newsstand - Alaska Airlines baggage handlers get offer

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002243088_alaska16.html

"The airline already outsources baggage handling at all the airports it serves except Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and those in Alaska. About 1,095 baggage handlers would work under any new contract. "

Something I didn't know.

Officials: 82 percent of union workers vote to authorize strike

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/051105/sta_20050511001.shtml

A labor standoff at Alaska Airlines could cost the jobs of the company's Seattle baggage handlers, who then could replace less senior unionized workers in Alaska.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-05-12-alaska-dispute_x.htm

JUNEAU (AP) — An Alaska Airlines labor dispute could cost the jobs of the company's Seattle baggage handlers, who then could replace less senior unionized workers in Alaska, according to the union

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/business/11639325.htm

SEATTLE - Alaska Airlines said Friday it has hired Menzies Aviation to provide ramp services at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the carrier's busiest hub, and is laying off 472 workers.

http://www.komotv.com/stories/36844.htm

SEA-TAC AIRPORT - Weary travelers are finding some turbulence on the ground at Sea-Tac Airport this weekend.

http://www.komotv.com/stories/36872.htm

SEATTLE - The union representing nearly 500 baggage handlers and ramp workers laid off by Alaska Airlines last week took the company to court on Monday, asking a judge to bar the company from outsourcing the work to subcontractors.

http://www.smartmoney.com/bn/ON/index.cfm?story=ON-20050517-000265-0724

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Alaska Airlines, which is operated by Alaska Air Group Inc. (ALK), disclosed Tuesday that it expects to record a substantial charge in the second quarter for severance and other benefits related to its decision to eliminate the jobs of 472 ramp-service workers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/washingtonstate/index.ssf?/base/business-1/1116367214247730.xml&storylist=orwashington

Dozens of protesters picketed Alaska Air Group's annual shareholders' meeting Tuesday, a day after the union representing 472 airport ramp workers laid off by Alaska Airlines asked a federal judge to tell the company it can't outsource the work.

http://www.komotv.com/stories/37182.htm

SEATTLE - Three dozen Alaska Airlines workers watched in federal court Thursday as union lawyers asked a judge for an emergency order putting them and hundreds of other furloughed employees back on the job.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/02/AR2005060201653.html

SEATTLE -- A federal judge on Thursday declined to reinstate 472 unionized ramp workers laid off by Alaska Airlines at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.