Brown's Election May End Up Being a Positive for Health-Care Reform

By Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Remember how Republican Scott P. Brown's victory in January's Senate race in Massachusetts was supposed to represent a mortal blow to health-care reform?

"Probably back to the drawing board," Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) declared the next day. "Might be dead," Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) surmised. "We're back to where we were maybe even years ago," concluded Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.).

Statement on the Employment Situation in February

Posted by Christina Romer on March 5, 2010 at 9:36 AM EST

Although the labor market remains severely distressed, today’s report on the employment situation is consistent with the pattern of stabilization and gradual labor market healing we have been seeing in recent months.

The unemployment rate remained constant at 9.7 percent. Many had expected that some of January’s 0.3 percentage point decline would prove to be a transitory drop. That it was maintained for a second month makes it more likely that it was a genuine decline, not statistical noise. The number of workers unemployed for more than 26 weeks fell by 180,000, the first decline in over a year.

Giving Peace of Mind Back to the American People

Posted by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on March 4, 2010 at 5:53 PM EST

The urgency of health reform couldn’t be more clear.

Across the country, working families have been saddled with huge rate increase in their health insurance premiums. In California, consumers were informed of rate hikes as high as 39 percent, and in Michigan, insurers sought a 56 percent increase and this is happening across the country.

Weekly Address: What Health Reform Will Deliver - This Year

Posted by Macon Phillips on March 6, 2010 at 6:04 AM EST

In this week’s address, President Obama describes how American families will have more control over their health care this year, after health reform passes.

LL731 March Business Meeting

IAM LL731 will hold its March Business meeting on Tuesday, March 9 at 7pm at Union Hall, 277 Tallulah Ave, Jacksonville, FL.

Please click on the Maps and Directions link on the website to find Union Hall.

We know your time is very valuable, but please see your way to give your union an hour of your time. You will not regret it.

If you arrive early, please be respectful and wait quietly in the entryway until the Executive Board meeting has concluded.

PLEASE TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES!!!

British Airways to Feature Airplane Health Management (AHM) on Its Boeing Twin-Aisle Fleet

Bernama - Friday, March

KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 (Bernama) -- Boeing and British Airways on Thursday announced that the airline will feature Boeing’s Airplane Health Management (AHM) system to monitor the in-flight condition of more than 100 Boeing twin-aisle jetliners.

AHM will be used on the airline's current 777 and 747-400 fleets and future deliveries, including 787 Dreamliners, Boeing said in a statement here today.

Storms Cost Southwest Airlines $15M in February Revenues

11:26 AM CST on Friday, March 5, 2010

By TERRY MAXON / The Dallas Morning News
tmaxon@dallasnews.com

Winter weather in February lowered Southwest Airlines Co.’s revenues by an estimated $15 million, the Dallas-based carrier said on Friday.

Also Online Heavy storms took toll on U.S. airline flights in February

Blog: Airline Biz
Southwest and other U.S. airlines had to deal with repeated snowstorms that forced airport closings or limited operations, particularly in the New York-Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington corridor.

Trash-Talking Erupts as U.S. Airlines Bid for Open Tokyo Routes

12:00 AM CST on Sunday, March 7, 2010

By TERRY MAXON / The Dallas Morning News
tmaxon@dallasnews.com

Five U.S. airlines have applied for the right to offer 11 flights a day from eight U.S. airports to Tokyo's Haneda International Airport, Asia's busiest airport.

The problem is that the U.S. Department of Transportation has only four flights to allocate.

As a result, the airlines have embarked on lengthy submissions of legal trash-talking, typical in international route cases.