Yet United's employees, who own 55percentt of the company, refuse to meet management's terms, despite the fact that its two most powerful labor groups -- the pilots and machinists -- have the most generous contracts in the industry and one seat each on the 12-member board.
Local 1 is one of the city's oldest and most powerful labor groups.
The coal miners are one of the country's most identifiable labor groups, and because their labor is essential to life itself in the Russian winter, they played a crucial role in the political struggles that attended the demise of the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, some of the state's most powerful labor groups say that unless they receive a signal from Mr. Cuomo, they are moving to openly endorse the daughter of the late president and niece of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a longtime ally of the unions.
Taveras, who has the backing of most local labor groups (the teachers unions are supporting Pell), has slammed Raimondo for her role in crafting polarizing pension reform legislation.
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The mechanics are United's most militant labor group.
At first, Mr. Corzine's plan also upset another longtime ally, the New Jersey Education Association, which represents teachers and is considered the most powerful labor group in the state.
A11 Labor Group Opposes Recall The leadership of California's most powerful labor group, the state A.F.L.-C.I.O., voted resoundingly to oppose the recall of Gov. Gray Davis.
A14 BUSINESS DAY C1-16 United Secures Concessions United Airlines said its pilots ratified labor concessions that would save $1.1 billion a year, and it reached a tentative agreement on cost cuts with its mechanics, the airline's most militant labor group.
