Tags: district 70

‘Survival’ Vote Looms at Hawker Beechcraft

Thu. October 14, 2010
IAM members at Hawker Beechcraft in Wichita, KS, will vote this week on a seven-year tentative agreement that preserves two-thirds of the 2,600 bargaining unit jobs that were threatened with elimination.

IAM Pressure Cancels Outsourcing Conference, Again

Thu. October 14, 2010
For the second time, Mexican aerospace officials have cancelled a conference in Wichita, KS, designed to lure more aircraft jobs to Mexico. Last April, the magazine Mexico Now cancelled the conference after District Lodge 70 announced plans to picket the conference. This time the conference wasn’t publicly announced, but the Machinists and the Wichita Eagle found out about it. After the announcement the District would protest, the conference was quickly cancelled, no reason given.