Bloomberg Portugal’s state-owned airline TAP SA will cancel 360 flights during a two day cabin-crew strike scheduled for December 8-9 after the carrier failed to reach a new agreement with unions. “The cancellation of the flights is happening now,” Chief Executive Officer Christine Ourmieres-Widener said at a press conference in Lisbon on. The strike will affect about half of …

Bloomberg Nike Inc. female workers who accuse the company of gender discrimination failed to persuade a federal magistrate they should be allowed to join together to sue the athletic shoe maker as a group. Magistrate Judge Jolie A. Russo in Portland, Oregon, recommended that the women’s request for class-action status be denied, but her findings were sealed from public view, …

  Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG is evaluating a solo bid for Alitalia successor ITA Airways after talks between the Italian government and other potential suitors collapsed, according to people with the matter. The German airline group is looking through ITA’s data room and could make a bid to acquire the carrier on its own, said the people, asking not to …