07/12/05: Twenty employees at DynCorp Inc., in Aquadilla, Puerto Rico, voted to join the IAM on July 7, 2005. The new members repair helicopter rotor wings damaged during service in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“I would like to thank our organizing committee for all the hard work they contributed to this campaign,” said Southern Territory Organizing Leader Bobby Sapp. The workers will become members of IAM Local Lodge 2725.
“Local Lodge 2725 Business Agent John Vigueras has done and outstanding job with organizing and servicing,” said Southern Territory GVP Bob Martinez. “This is the first election won in nearly nine years in Puerto Rico by the IAM and I’m sure this will be the first of many more to come. In the Southern Territory, we will leave no stone unturned, and we will leave no worker who wishes union representation high and dry. Our new commitment to organizing in Puerto Rico is reflective of the IAM’s dedication to growing our union.”
